écoutait
\e.ku.tɛ\
The verdict
“écoutait” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,375. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,375
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de écouter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecoutait · écoutait · French
écoutait · rank #18,375 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,375
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH étendard
Nearest frequency peer: étendard (+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 « écoutait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- wait
wait
81,631 corpus weight
- women
women
81,630 corpus weight
- Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe
81,628 corpus weight
- écoutait
écoutait
81,626 corpus weight
- étendard
étendard
81,625 corpus weight
- étymologie
étymologie
81,624 corpus weight
What this shows « écoutait » 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 | écoutait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.ku.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,375 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « écoutait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around écoutait (IPA \e.ku.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #18,375 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de écouter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for écoutait, with forms such as "céoutait", "ecoutait", and "éccoutait". 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", "écoutais", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is écoutait, spelled É-C-O-U-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de écouter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how écoutait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les concertistes sont comme les flics : toujours sur la brèche, soupira Élie qui écoutait d’une oreille distraite.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- céoutait
- ecoutait
- éccoutait
- écotuait
- écouatit
- écoutaitt
- écoutati
- écoutiat
- écouttait
- écuotait
- éocutait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of écoutait - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "écoutait", 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).