désirait
\de.zi.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“désirait” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,245. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,245
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de désirer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desirait · désirait · French
désirait · rank #22,245 · 12 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,245
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dégoûte
Nearest frequency peer: dégoûte (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « désirait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- décryptage
décryptage
77,759 corpus weight
- définissant
définissant
77,758 corpus weight
- dégoûte
dégoûte
77,757 corpus weight
- désirait
désirait
77,756 corpus weight
- déterminants
déterminants
77,755 corpus weight
- déterminent
déterminent
77,754 corpus weight
What this shows « désirait » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | désirait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.zi.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #22,245 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « désirait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around désirait (IPA \de.zi.ʁɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #22,245 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de désirer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for désirait, with forms such as "ddésirait", "desirait", and "dséirait". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "dirait", "devrait", "désirent", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is désirait, spelled D-É-S-I-R-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de désirer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how désirait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est ce que sentait Cavour, avec son tact de grand homme d’État; et pour qu’on ne pût lui reprocher de turiniser et de cavouriser l’Italie, il désirait prendre pour collaborateurs les hommes les plus éminens de chaque région.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddésirait
- desirait
- dséirait
- déisrait
- désiarit
- désiraitt
- désirati
- désiriat
- désirrait
- désriait
- déssirait
- édsirait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of désirait - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).