finissaient
\fi.ni.sɛ\
The verdict
“finissaient” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,339. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,339
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de finir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-finissaient · finissaient · French
finissaient · rank #42,339 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,339
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH figés
Nearest frequency peer: figés (-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 « finissaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Fenerbahçe
Fenerbahçe
57,665 corpus weight
- feuilleté
feuilleté
57,664 corpus weight
- figés
figés
57,663 corpus weight
- finissaient
finissaient
57,662 corpus weight
- firmament
firmament
57,661 corpus weight
- Fitzpatrick
Fitzpatrick
57,660 corpus weight
What this shows « finissaient » 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 | finissaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fi.ni.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #42,339 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « finissaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around finissaient (IPA \fi.ni.sɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #42,339 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de finir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for finissaient, with forms such as "ffinissaient", "fiinssaient", and "finisaient". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "finissent", "finissant", "finissait", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is finissaient, spelled F-I-N-I-S-S-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de finir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how finissaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’amour du lucre était pour beaucoup dans les courses à travers les bois au temps de la domination française, mais le besoin d’aventures était le mobile principal qui poussait tant de jeunes gens dans les solitudes les plus reculées, où d’ordinaire ils finissaient par périr ou se sauvagiser.
Les éclairs finissaient leur course sur le sol et la pluie tombait à seaux.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffinissaient
- fiinssaient
- finisaient
- finisasient
- finissaeint
- finissaiennt
- finissaientt
- finissaietn
- finissainet
- finissiaent
- finnissaient
- finsisaient
- fniissaient
- ifnissaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of finissaient - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).