écoutaient
\e.ku.tɛ\
The verdict
“écoutaient” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,086. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,086
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de écouter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecoutaient · écoutaient · French
écoutaient · rank #41,086 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,086
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH écrivaient
Nearest frequency peer: écrivaient (+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 « écoutaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- échauffe
échauffe
58,918 corpus weight
- échoua
échoua
58,917 corpus weight
- écoutaient
écoutaient
58,915 corpus weight
- écrivaient
écrivaient
58,914 corpus weight
- Éloi
Éloi
58,913 corpus weight
- élégamment
élégamment
58,912 corpus weight
What this shows « écoutaient » 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 | écoutaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.ku.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #41,086 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « écoutaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around écoutaient (IPA \e.ku.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #41,086 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de écouter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for écoutaient, with forms such as "céoutaient", "ecoutaient", and "éccoutaient". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "écoutant", "écoutent", "écoutait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is écoutaient, spelled É-C-O-U-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de écouter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how écoutaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mathieu Dolieu pérorait sur son sujet favori, les rapports du génie et de la maladie ; ses invités l’écoutaient avec une ferveur admirative ; Sophie, avec un sourire appendu à sa jolie bouche de marquise du XVIIIᵉ siècle, tournait des regards perçants vers le domestique à qui elle donnait des ordres muets, ponctuellement exécutés.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- céoutaient
- ecoutaient
- éccoutaient
- écotuaient
- écouatient
- écoutaeint
- écoutaiennt
- écoutaientt
- écoutaietn
- écoutainet
- écoutiaent
- écouttaient
- écuotaient
- éocutaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of écoutaient - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).