existait
\ɛɡ.zis.tɛ\
The verdict
“existait” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,487. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,487
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de exister.
Corpus desk
Index FR-existait · existait · French
existait · rank #4,487 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,487
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exposé
Nearest frequency peer: exposé (+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 « existait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- DVD
DVD
95,517 corpus weight
- déclarations
déclarations
95,516 corpus weight
- existait
existait
95,514 corpus weight
- exposé
exposé
95,513 corpus weight
- fesses
fesses
95,512 corpus weight
- genres
genres
95,511 corpus weight
What this shows « existait » 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 | existait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛɡ.zis.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,487 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « existait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around existait (IPA \ɛɡ.zis.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #4,487 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de exister.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for existait, with forms such as "eixstait", "exisatit", and "exisstait". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "existent", "existant", "existants", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is existait, spelled E-X-I-S-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de exister.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how existait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi, il n’existait pas dans ce pays de réseau de concessionnaires automobiles, ni même de garages à proprement parler… car le parc automobile circulant était si faible que le métier de réparateur automobile ne s’était pas encore structuré.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eixstait
- exisatit
- exisstait
- existaitt
- existati
- existiat
- existtait
- exitsait
- exsitait
- exxistait
- xeistait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of existait - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "existait", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (11 here; floor ≥5).