faisaient
\fə.zɛ\
The verdict
“faisaient” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,137. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,137
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de faire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faisaient · faisaient · French
faisaient · rank #3,137 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,137
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH dépôt
Nearest frequency peer: dépôt (-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 « faisaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- digne
digne
96,867 corpus weight
- disparition
disparition
96,866 corpus weight
- dépôt
dépôt
96,865 corpus weight
- faisaient
faisaient
96,864 corpus weight
- fidèle
fidèle
96,863 corpus weight
- graves
graves
96,862 corpus weight
What this shows « faisaient » 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 | faisaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fə.zɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #3,137 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « faisaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around faisaient (IPA \fə.zɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #3,137 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de faire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for faisaient, with forms such as "afisaient", "faiasient", and "faisaeint". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "faisait", "faisant", "faisais", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is faisaient, spelled F-A-I-S-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de faire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how faisaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’aucuns, depuis que j’ai entrepris de déduire en français de notre âge maintes belles et plaisantes chroniques d’où tiraient liesse et profit les hautes dames, gentes damoyselles, lecteurs bourgeoisants d’esprit rassis et autres, du temps jadis, j’entends ceux, plus fantaisistes ou plus fols qui se savaient conjouir aux chimériques aventures dont l’étoff…
Ses connaissances en médecine lui ont permis de soigner les navrés tandis que ses pairs ostoyaient et se faisaient honteusement débriser par leurs ennemis.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afisaient
- faiasient
- faisaeint
- faisaiennt
- faisaientt
- faisaietn
- faisainet
- faisiaent
- faissaient
- fasiaient
- ffaisaient
- fiasaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of faisaient - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).