fallait
\fa.lɛ\
The verdict
“fallait” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,091. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,091
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de falloir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fallait · fallait · French
fallait · rank #1,091 · 8 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,091
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH dirait
Nearest frequency peer: dirait (-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 « fallait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- comité
comité
98,913 corpus weight
- continuer
continuer
98,912 corpus weight
- dirait
dirait
98,911 corpus weight
- fallait
fallait
98,910 corpus weight
- mm
mm
98,909 corpus weight
- mémoire
mémoire
98,908 corpus weight
What this shows « fallait » 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 | fallait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fa.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,091 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fallait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around fallait (IPA \fa.lɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,091 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de falloir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for fallait, with forms such as "afllait", "falait", and "falalit". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "fallut", "filait", "falloir", 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 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 fallait, spelled F-A-L-L-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de falloir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fallait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans un carrosse qui conduisit le prince et ses « roués » pour un souper à Saint-Cloud, l’un d’eux voulut savoir ce qu’il fallait penser du bruit qui courait.
Il se souvenait de la trappe dans le sol qui y donnait accès, si lourde qu’il fallait s’y mettre à trois, avec ses frères, pour la soulever.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afllait
- falait
- falalit
- fallaitt
- fallati
- falliat
- ffallait
- flalait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fallait - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).