espéraient
\ɛs.pe.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“espéraient” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,161. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,161
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de espérer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-esperaient · espéraient · French
espéraient · rank #28,161 · 15 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,161
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Erika
Nearest frequency peer: Erika (-2 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 « espéraient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- envahis
envahis
71,844 corpus weight
- envolent
envolent
71,843 corpus weight
- Erika
Erika
71,842 corpus weight
- espéraient
espéraient
71,840 corpus weight
- excluent
excluent
71,837 corpus weight
- exiler
exiler
71,836 corpus weight
What this shows « espéraient » 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 | espéraient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛs.pe.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #28,161 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « espéraient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around espéraient (IPA \ɛs.pe.ʁɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #28,161 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de espérer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for espéraient, with forms such as "epséraient", "esperaient", and "esppéraient". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "espérant", "espérait", "espèrent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is espéraient, spelled E-S-P-É-R-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de espérer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how espéraient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ses mains erraient inconscientes sur son cou, comme si elles espéraient, par cet attouchement, le déconvulser.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epséraient
- esperaient
- esppéraient
- espréaient
- espéarient
- espéraeint
- espéraiennt
- espéraientt
- espéraietn
- espérainet
- espériaent
- espérraient
- esspéraient
- esépraient
- sepéraient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of espéraient - 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 "espéraient", 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).