écrivaient
\e.kʁi.vɛ\
The verdict
“écrivaient” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,087. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,087
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de écrire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecrivaient · écrivaient · French
écrivaient · rank #41,087 · 15 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,087
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH écoutaient
Nearest frequency peer: écoutaient (-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 « écrivaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 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
- Épiphanie
Épiphanie
58,911 corpus weight
What this shows « écrivaient » 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 | écrivaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.kʁi.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #41,087 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « écrivaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around écrivaient (IPA \e.kʁi.vɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #41,087 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de écrire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for écrivaient, with forms such as "cérivaient", "ecrivaient", and "éccrivaient". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "écrivain", "écrivent", "écrivait", 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 is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is écrivaient, spelled É-C-R-I-V-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de écrire.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cérivaient
- ecrivaient
- éccrivaient
- écirvaient
- écriavient
- écrivaeint
- écrivaiennt
- écrivaientt
- écrivaietn
- écrivainet
- écriviaent
- écrivvaient
- écrrivaient
- écrviaient
- ércivaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of écrivaient - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "écrivaient", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (15 here; floor ≥5).