gagnaient
\ɡa.ɲɛ\
The verdict
“gagnaient” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,345. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,345
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” 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 gagner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gagnaient · gagnaient · French
gagnaient · rank #37,345 · 13 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,345
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH frontiste
Nearest frequency peer: frontiste (-2 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 « gagnaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- frame
frame
62,660 corpus weight
- Fresnes
Fresnes
62,659 corpus weight
- frontiste
frontiste
62,658 corpus weight
- gagnaient
gagnaient
62,656 corpus weight
- garderont
garderont
62,654 corpus weight
- gaspille
gaspille
62,653 corpus weight
What this shows « gagnaient » 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 | gagnaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡa.ɲɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #37,345 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gagnaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around gagnaient (IPA \ɡa.ɲɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #37,345 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de gagner.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for gagnaient, with forms such as "aggnaient", "gaganient", and "gaggnaient". 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, "gagnant", "gagnent", "gagnait", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gagnaient, spelled G-A-G-N-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de gagner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gagnaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En interceptant les communications satellites des retransmissions, les escrocs gagnaient de précieuses secondes sur les autres bookmakeurs.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aggnaient
- gaganient
- gaggnaient
- gagnaeint
- gagnaiennt
- gagnaientt
- gagnaietn
- gagnainet
- gagniaent
- gagnnaient
- gangaient
- ggagnaient
- gganaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gagnaient - 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 "gagnaient", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (13 here; floor ≥5).