fournissait
\fuʁ.ni.sɛ\
The verdict
“fournissait” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,565. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,565
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de fournir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fournissait · fournissait · French
fournissait · rank #28,565 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,565
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Forrest
Nearest frequency peer: Forrest (-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 « fournissait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- foch
foch
71,439 corpus weight
- forages
forages
71,438 corpus weight
- Forrest
Forrest
71,437 corpus weight
- fournissait
fournissait
71,436 corpus weight
- frégates
frégates
71,435 corpus weight
- furet
furet
71,434 corpus weight
What this shows « fournissait » 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 | fournissait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fuʁ.ni.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #28,565 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fournissait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around fournissait (IPA \fuʁ.ni.sɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #28,565 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de fournir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for fournissait, with forms such as "ffournissait", "forunissait", and "founrissait". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "fournissent", "fournissant", "fournissaient", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is fournissait, spelled F-O-U-R-N-I-S-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de fournir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fournissait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On n’entendait dans la clairière que le grouillement des bêtes à poil ou à écailles se faufilant dans la forêt tropicale qui les entourait de trois côtés, le murmure de la rivière et le teuf-teuf incessant du moteur Delco à essence qui fournissait le courant lumière et faisait marcher les vieilles machines de l’atelier de réparation.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffournissait
- forunissait
- founrissait
- fourinssait
- fournisait
- fournisasit
- fournissaitt
- fournissati
- fournissiat
- fournnissait
- fournsisait
- fourrnissait
- fuornissait
- ofurnissait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fournissait - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).