finissait
\fi.ni.sɛ\
The verdict
“finissait” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,940. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,940
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de finir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-finissait · finissait · French
finissait · rank #21,940 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,940
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flirt
Nearest frequency peer: flirt (+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 « finissait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Everton
Everton
78,064 corpus weight
- exquis
exquis
78,063 corpus weight
- finissait
finissait
78,061 corpus weight
- flirt
flirt
78,060 corpus weight
- foncières
foncières
78,059 corpus weight
- foncée
foncée
78,058 corpus weight
What this shows « finissait » 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 | finissait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fi.ni.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #21,940 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « finissait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around finissait (IPA \fi.ni.sɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #21,940 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de finir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for finissait, with forms such as "ffinissait", "fiinssait", and "finisait". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "finissent", "finissant", "finirait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is finissait, spelled F-I-N-I-S-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de finir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how finissait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Benjamin finissait toujours par râlouiller, arguant que les filles venaient toujours à nous pour les mauvaises raisons, à savoir ma belle gueule.
Henry, lui, n’en finissait pas de dévorer sa mère, pressant son sein entre ses lèvres arrondies, la suçant jusqu’à la moelle.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffinissait
- fiinssait
- finisait
- finisasit
- finissaitt
- finissati
- finissiat
- finnissait
- finsisait
- fniissait
- ifnissait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of finissait - 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).