écrivit

\e.kʁi.vi\

/\e.kʁi.vi\/ verb

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

corpus weight

What this shows « écrivit » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

écrivit vs écrit
71% similar
écrivit vs écrive
71% similar
écrivit vs écrivez
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for écrivit
PropertyValue
Headwordécrivit
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\e.kʁi.vi\
Letters7
Frequency rank#14,390
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « écrivit »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.écrivitse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Willy » (#14,389), « éditoriale » (#14,391), « why » (#14,388). Parmi 1,805 lemmes en « É », « écrivit » est au #14,390. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de écrire.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how écrivit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

cérivit2ecrivit1éccrivit1écirvit2écriivt2écrivitt1écrivti2écrivvit1
Edit distance from "écrivit"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "écrivit"?
"écrivit" is spelled É-C-R-I-V-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \e.kʁi.vi\.
What does "écrivit" mean?
As a verb, "écrivit" means: Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de écrire.
What words are commonly confused with "écrivit"?
"écrivit" is commonly confused with "écrit", "écrive", "écrivez". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "écrivit"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "écrivit" is \e.kʁi.vi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "écrivit" come from?
"écrivit" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list