faisait
\fə.zɛ\
The verdict
“faisait” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #671. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #671
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de faire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faisait · faisait · French
faisait · rank #671 · 9 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #671
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH durant
Nearest frequency peer: durant (-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 « faisait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- coupe
coupe
99,333 corpus weight
- cour
cour
99,332 corpus weight
- durant
durant
99,331 corpus weight
- faisait
faisait
99,330 corpus weight
- objet
objet
99,329 corpus weight
- oh
oh
99,328 corpus weight
What this shows « faisait » 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 | faisait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fə.zɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #671 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « faisait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around faisait (IPA \fə.zɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #671 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de faire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for faisait, with forms such as "afisait", "faiasit", and "faisaitt". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "fixait", "filait", "faisan", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is faisait, spelled F-A-I-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de faire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how faisait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et le malheureux se roidissait : depuis de longues minutes il faisait de terribles efforts pour résister aux souffrances qu’il éprouvait, aux courbatures inouïes qui menaçaient de paralyser son corps meurtri.
Selon Victor, le tueur aurait assuré que son « réseau », ou peu importe le mot, les poursuivrait même si l’un d’eux le faisait entauler.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afisait
- faiasit
- faisaitt
- faisati
- faisiat
- faissait
- fasiait
- ffaisait
- fiasait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of faisait - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).