écoutais
\e.ku.tɛ\
The verdict
“écoutais” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,278. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,278
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de écouter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecoutais · écoutais · French
écoutais · rank #16,278 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,278
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH éclaircir
Nearest frequency peer: éclaircir (-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 « écoutais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- échappement
échappement
83,725 corpus weight
- éclaircir
éclaircir
83,724 corpus weight
- écoutais
écoutais
83,723 corpus weight
- écrasante
écrasante
83,722 corpus weight
- éliminée
éliminée
83,721 corpus weight
- éloignement
éloignement
83,720 corpus weight
What this shows « écoutais » 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 | écoutais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.ku.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,278 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « écoutais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around écoutais (IPA \e.ku.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #16,278 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for écoutais, with forms such as "céoutais", "ecoutais", and "éccoutais". 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, "écoutes", "écoutant", "écoutait", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is écoutais, spelled É-C-O-U-T-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de écouter.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de écouter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how écoutais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’écoutais s’éplorer de longs bruits de ramée.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- céoutais
- ecoutais
- éccoutais
- écotuais
- écouatis
- écoutaiss
- écoutasi
- écoutias
- écouttais
- écuotais
- éocutais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of écoutais - 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 "écoutais", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (11 here; floor ≥5).