dirigeaient
\di.ʁi.ʒɛ\
The verdict
“dirigeaient” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,752. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,752
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de diriger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dirigeaient · dirigeaient · French
dirigeaient · rank #38,752 · 15 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,752
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dirigeable
Nearest frequency peer: dirigeable (-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 « dirigeaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dF
dF
61,252 corpus weight
- dieter
dieter
61,251 corpus weight
- dirigeable
dirigeable
61,250 corpus weight
- dirigeaient
dirigeaient
61,249 corpus weight
- distancer
distancer
61,248 corpus weight
- dockers
dockers
61,247 corpus weight
What this shows « dirigeaient » 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 | dirigeaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \di.ʁi.ʒɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #38,752 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dirigeaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around dirigeaient (IPA \di.ʁi.ʒɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #38,752 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de diriger.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for dirigeaient, with forms such as "ddirigeaient", "diirgeaient", and "dirgieaient". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "dirigeant", "dirigeait", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dirigeaient, spelled D-I-R-I-G-E-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de diriger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dirigeaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Seules les balayeuses municipales circulaient, ainsi que quelques Anglais qui s’obstinaient à prendre de véritables bains de mer et qui, en peignoir, se dirigeaient à grands pas vers la plage.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddirigeaient
- diirgeaient
- dirgieaient
- diriegaient
- dirigaeient
- dirigeaeint
- dirigeaiennt
- dirigeaientt
- dirigeaietn
- dirigeainet
- dirigeiaent
- diriggeaient
- dirrigeaient
- driigeaient
- idrigeaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dirigeaient - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dirigeaient", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).