existaient
\ɛɡ.zis.tɛ\
The verdict
“existaient” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,379. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,379
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 14
- 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 exister.
Corpus desk
Index FR-existaient · existaient · French
existaient · rank #13,379 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,379
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH fasses
Nearest frequency peer: fasses (+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 « existaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- essayent
essayent
86,625 corpus weight
- essayes
essayes
86,624 corpus weight
- existaient
existaient
86,622 corpus weight
- fasses
fasses
86,621 corpus weight
- faveurs
faveurs
86,620 corpus weight
- fe
fe
86,619 corpus weight
What this shows « existaient » 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 | existaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛɡ.zis.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #13,379 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « existaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around existaient (IPA \ɛɡ.zis.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #13,379 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de exister.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for existaient, with forms such as "eixstaient", "exisatient", and "exisstaient". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "existent", "existait", "existant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 existaient, spelled E-X-I-S-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de exister.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how existaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dont la possibilité valorisante de se « déhutuiser », qui montre donc que les prémices d’une hiérarchie et d’une inégalité identitaire existaient déjà ; il s’agirait alors, selon la formule de J. Lonsdale, spécialiste du Kenya, d’un système d’inégalité honorable.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eixstaient
- exisatient
- exisstaient
- existaeint
- existaiennt
- existaientt
- existaietn
- existainet
- existiaent
- existtaient
- exitsaient
- exsitaient
- exxistaient
- xeistaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of existaient - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).