expliquait
\ɛk.spli.kɛ\
The verdict
“expliquait” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,965. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,965
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de expliquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-expliquait · expliquait · French
expliquait · rank #11,965 · 14 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,965
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exceptionnels
Nearest frequency peer: exceptionnels (-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 « expliquait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- enterrer
enterrer
88,039 corpus weight
- entourant
entourant
88,038 corpus weight
- exceptionne…
exceptionnels
88,037 corpus weight
- expliquait
expliquait
88,036 corpus weight
- fai
fai
88,034 corpus weight
- farce
farce
88,033 corpus weight
What this shows « expliquait » 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 | expliquait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛk.spli.kɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #11,965 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « expliquait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around expliquait (IPA \ɛk.spli.kɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #11,965 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de expliquer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for expliquait, with forms such as "epxliquait", "exlpiquait", and "expilquait". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "expliquent", "expliquant", "expliquerait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is expliquait, spelled E-X-P-L-I-Q-U-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de expliquer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how expliquait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il avait terminé le cirage de pompes et expliquait qu’une importante collection de pièces de la civilisation mycénienne avait été retrouvée un peu moins d’un an auparavant et était présentée au public pour la première fois ce soir.
... ce qui, parmi la vingtaine de nouveaux volontaires qui intégraient la 6e compagnie aujourd’hui, expliquait la présence d’un boiteux, d’un souffle au cœur, d’un borgne et d’un garçon bien loin d’être un homme...
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epxliquait
- exlpiquait
- expilquait
- expliqauit
- expliqquait
- expliquaitt
- expliquati
- expliquiat
- expliuqait
- explliquait
- explqiuait
- exppliquait
- exxpliquait
- xepliquait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of expliquait - 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 "expliquait", 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).