formaient
\fɔʁ.mɛ\
The verdict
“formaient” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,272. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,272
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de former.
Corpus desk
Index FR-formaient · formaient · French
formaient · rank #22,272 · 13 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,272
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Foix
Nearest frequency peer: Foix (-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 « formaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- flair
flair
77,732 corpus weight
- fluo
fluo
77,731 corpus weight
- Foix
Foix
77,730 corpus weight
- formaient
formaient
77,729 corpus weight
- fougères
fougères
77,728 corpus weight
- fourrer
fourrer
77,727 corpus weight
What this shows « formaient » 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 | formaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɔʁ.mɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #22,272 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « formaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around formaient (IPA \fɔʁ.mɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #22,272 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de former.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for formaient, with forms such as "fformaient", "fomraient", and "foramient". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "forment", "formant", "formait", 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is formaient, spelled F-O-R-M-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de former.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how formaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces dignes bêtes formaient une assemblée de sujets plus fidèles que ceux à qui s’adressait alors le roi, tous tachetés de blanc, de brun, de noir, ayant chacun leur physionomie absolument comme les soldats de Napoléon, allumant au moindre bruit leurs prunelles d’un feu qui les faisait ressembler à des diamants ; l’un, venu du Poitou, court de reins, large…
Il y avait lieu, en effet, de se tenir sur ses gardes : un jour on trouva entre les mains de quelques individus suspects des lettres contraires au Roi, à la Reine sa mère, et à la religion, et on s’empressa d’emprisonner les porteurs dans la Tour, au pain et à l’eau ; le lendemain, le bruit courant que des amas de gens de guerre se formaient à Saint-Piat,…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fformaient
- fomraient
- foramient
- formaeint
- formaiennt
- formaientt
- formaietn
- formainet
- formiaent
- formmaient
- forrmaient
- fromaient
- ofrmaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of formaient - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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