dormaient
\dɔʁ.mɛ\
The verdict
“dormaient” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,782. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,782
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de dormir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dormaient · dormaient · French
dormaient · rank #32,782 · 13 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,782
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH douilles
Nearest frequency peer: douilles (+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 « dormaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- distants
distants
67,222 corpus weight
- DNA
DNA
67,221 corpus weight
- dormaient
dormaient
67,219 corpus weight
- douilles
douilles
67,218 corpus weight
- Drago
Drago
67,217 corpus weight
- débuta
débuta
67,216 corpus weight
What this shows « dormaient » 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 | dormaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dɔʁ.mɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #32,782 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dormaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around dormaient (IPA \dɔʁ.mɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #32,782 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de dormir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for dormaient, with forms such as "ddormaient", "domraient", and "doramient". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "dorment", "dormait", "dormant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dormaient, spelled D-O-R-M-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de dormir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dormaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des chiens, toute une tribu de ces roquets ottomans qui tiennent du chacal et du matou sans maitre, dormaient tortillés en spirale, jetés de çà de là, pêle-mêle, ou campés à l’écart ; dérangés par un intrus coiffé d’un chapeau de haute forme, et noir, ils grognèrent ; mais une canne brandie et le Ouste auquel l’engeance a coutume d’obéir les incitèrent à…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddormaient
- domraient
- doramient
- dormaeint
- dormaiennt
- dormaientt
- dormaietn
- dormainet
- dormiaent
- dormmaient
- dorrmaient
- dromaient
- odrmaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dormaient - 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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Same letter count
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