gagnaient

\ɡa.ɲɛ\

/\ɡa.ɲɛ\/ verb

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

corpus weight

What this shows « gagnaient » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

gagnaient vs gagnant
78% similar
gagnaient vs gagnent
78% similar
gagnaient vs gagnait
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for gagnaient
PropertyValue
Headwordgagnaient
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɡa.ɲɛ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#37,345
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gagnaient »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).gagnaientse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « frontiste » (#37,343), « garderont » (#37,347), « Fresnes » (#37,342). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « gagnaient » est au #37,345. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de gagner.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how gagnaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

aggnaient2gaganient2gaggnaient1gagnaeint2gagnaiennt1gagnaientt1gagnaietn2gagnainet2
Edit distance from "gagnaient"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gagnaient"?
"gagnaient" is spelled G-A-G-N-A-I-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡa.ɲɛ\.
What does "gagnaient" mean?
As a verb, "gagnaient" means: Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de gagner.
What words are commonly confused with "gagnaient"?
"gagnaient" is commonly confused with "gagnant", "gagnent", "gagnait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "gagnaient"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gagnaient" is \ɡa.ɲɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gagnaient" come from?
"gagnaient" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list