frappait
\fʁa.pɛ\
The verdict
“frappait” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,323. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,323
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de frapper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-frappait · frappait · French
frappait · rank #25,323 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,323
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Frankie
Nearest frequency peer: Frankie (-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 « frappait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fonctionnel…
fonctionnelles
74,681 corpus weight
- formelles
formelles
74,680 corpus weight
- Frankie
Frankie
74,679 corpus weight
- frappait
frappait
74,678 corpus weight
- freeman
freeman
74,677 corpus weight
- frost
frost
74,676 corpus weight
What this shows « frappait » 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 | frappait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fʁa.pɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #25,323 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « frappait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around frappait (IPA \fʁa.pɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #25,323 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de frapper.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for frappait, with forms such as "farppait", "ffrappait", and "frapait". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "frappant", "frappent", "frappante", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is frappait, spelled F-R-A-P-P-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de frapper.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how frappait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On ne sait trop pourquoi la belle fée, devenue bûcheronne, frappait de vigoureux coups de cognée cet arbre fruitier, qui n’était pas de ces arbres stériles que l’on condamne au feu, ou dont on fait « descier » le tronc pour la menuiserie.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- farppait
- ffrappait
- frapait
- frapapit
- frappaitt
- frappati
- frappiat
- frpapait
- frrappait
- rfappait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of frappait - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "frappait", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).