écrivait
\e.kʁi.vɛ\
The verdict
“écrivait” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,104. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,104
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de écrire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecrivait · écrivait · French
écrivait · rank #10,104 · 12 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,104
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH yen
Nearest frequency peer: yen (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “écrivait”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- XVIIe
XVIIe
89,900 corpus weight
- XX
XX
89,899 corpus weight
- yen
yen
89,898 corpus weight
- écrivait
écrivait
89,897 corpus weight
- éléphant
éléphant
89,896 corpus weight
- émeutes
émeutes
89,895 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “écrivait” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | écrivait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.kʁi.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,104 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “écrivait” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around écrivait (IPA \e.kʁi.vɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,104 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de écrire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for écrivait, with forms such as "cérivait", "ecrivait", and "éccrivait". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "écrivit", "écrivent", "écrivant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is écrivait, spelled É-C-R-I-V-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de écrire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how écrivait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Certaines communes, écrivait le préfet, à l’occasion des fêtes patronales, ou de manifestations agricoles, ont, à leur programme de réjouissances, des concours de buveurs de cidre ou autres boissons.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cérivait
- ecrivait
- éccrivait
- écirvait
- écriavit
- écrivaitt
- écrivati
- écriviat
- écrivvait
- écrrivait
- écrviait
- ércivait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of écrivait - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "écrivait", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "écrivait". Here's where to go from here.
- "écrivait" maps to 9 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "écrivit". View pair
- 12 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #10,104 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "É" letter cohort. É–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.