ennuyait
\ɑ̃.nɥi.jɛ\
The verdict
“ennuyait” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,742. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,742
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de ennuyer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ennuyait · ennuyait · French
ennuyait · rank #40,742 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,742
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enrichissante
Nearest frequency peer: enrichissante (+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 « ennuyait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- empiéter
empiéter
59,262 corpus weight
- encolure
encolure
59,261 corpus weight
- ennuyait
ennuyait
59,259 corpus weight
- enrichissan…
enrichissante
59,258 corpus weight
- entasser
entasser
59,257 corpus weight
- entrevoit
entrevoit
59,255 corpus weight
What this shows « ennuyait » 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 | ennuyait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.nɥi.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #40,742 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ennuyait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around ennuyait (IPA \ɑ̃.nɥi.jɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #40,742 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de ennuyer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for ennuyait, with forms such as "ennuayit", "ennuyaitt", and "ennuyati". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "envoyait", "ennuyant", "ennuyais", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is ennuyait, spelled E-N-N-U-Y-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de ennuyer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ennuyait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce qui m’ennuyait surtout, c’était mon livre de marketing et mon Discman, qui m’avait coûté 200 francs.
La veille, parce qu’elle s’ennuyait à ne rien faire, elle avait rempli une seille. Et longuement y avait lavé le pantalon de velours de son mari.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ennuayit
- ennuyaitt
- ennuyati
- ennuyiat
- ennuyyait
- ennyuait
- enunyait
- enuyait
- nenuyait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ennuyait - 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
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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 (9 here; floor ≥5).