écrivit
\e.kʁi.vi\
The verdict
“écrivit” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,390. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,390
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de écrire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecrivit · écrivit · French
écrivit · rank #14,390 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,390
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH Willy
Nearest frequency peer: Willy (-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 « écrivit »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- wc
wc
85,614 corpus weight
- why
why
85,613 corpus weight
- Willy
Willy
85,612 corpus weight
- écrivit
écrivit
85,611 corpus weight
- éditoriale
éditoriale
85,610 corpus weight
- éduquer
éduquer
85,609 corpus weight
What this shows « écrivit » 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 | écrivit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.kʁi.vi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,390 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « écrivit »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around écrivit (IPA \e.kʁi.vi\), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,390 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de écrire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for écrivit, with forms such as "cérivit", "ecrivit", and "éccrivit". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "écrit", "écrive", "écrivez", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is écrivit, spelled É-C-R-I-V-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de écrire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how écrivit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce sont des morceaux des livres, tous interminables, que Kafka écrivit, qui sont là, étudiés, talmudisés, dans sa correspondance.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cérivit
- ecrivit
- éccrivit
- écirvit
- écriivt
- écrivitt
- écrivti
- écrivvit
- écrrivit
- écrviit
- ércivit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of écrivit - 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 "écrivit", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).