glissait

\ɡli.sɛ\

/\ɡli.sɛ\/ verb

The verdict

“glissait” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,470. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#43,470
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de glisser.

Corpus desk

Index FR-glissait · glissait · French

glissait · rank #43,470 · 10 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #43,470
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH glaucome

Nearest frequency peer: glaucome (-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 « glissait »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « glissait » 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).

glissait vs glissant
88% similar
glissait vs glissent
75% similar
glissait vs glissante
78% similar

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

Key facts for glissait
PropertyValue
Headwordglissait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɡli.sɛ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#43,470
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « glissait »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).glissaitse 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 « glaucome » (#43,469), « Gloucester » (#43,471), « goodbye » (#43,472). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « glissait » est au #43,470. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around glissait (IPA \ɡli.sɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #43,470 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de glisser.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for glissait, with forms such as "gglissait", "gilssait", and "glisait". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "glissant", "glissent", "glissante", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is glissait, spelled G-L-I-S-S-A-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de glisser.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Fortrait, morfondu, mon cheval glissait à chaque pas et s’abattait sur les pentes verglacées.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • gglissait
  • gilssait
  • glisait
  • glisasit
  • glissaitt
  • glissati
  • glissiat
  • gllissait
  • glsisait
  • lgissait

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of glissait - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

gglissait1gilssait2glisait1glisasit2glissaitt1glissati2glissiat2gllissait1
Edit distance from "glissait"

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 "glissait"?
"glissait" is spelled G-L-I-S-S-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡli.sɛ\.
What does "glissait" mean?
As a verb, "glissait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de glisser.
What words are commonly confused with "glissait"?
"glissait" is commonly confused with "glissant", "glissent", "glissante". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "glissait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "glissait" is \ɡli.sɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "glissait" come from?
"glissait" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "glissait", 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).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list