fêtait
\fe.tɛ\
The verdict
“fêtait” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,313. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,313
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de fêter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fetait · fêtait · French
fêtait · rank #39,313 · 9 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,313
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH féerique
Nearest frequency peer: féerique (-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 « fêtait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fuseaux
fuseaux
60,691 corpus weight
- fusionne
fusionne
60,690 corpus weight
- féerique
féerique
60,689 corpus weight
- fêtait
fêtait
60,688 corpus weight
- gagnais
gagnais
60,687 corpus weight
- gaiement
gaiement
60,686 corpus weight
What this shows « fêtait » 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 | fêtait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fe.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #39,313 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fêtait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around fêtait (IPA \fe.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #39,313 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de fêter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for fêtait, with forms such as "fetait", "ffêtait", and "ftêait". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "fêtent", "fumait", "fixait", and more, 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 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 fêtait, spelled F-Ê-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de fêter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fêtait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À un moment donné, Zef avisa son compère en train de s’embrouiller avec une meute de types plutôt balaises. Une équipe de rugby au grand complet qui fêtait là sa troisième mi-temps.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fetait
- ffêtait
- ftêait
- fêatit
- fêtaitt
- fêtati
- fêtiat
- fêttait
- êftait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fêtait - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).