glissait
\ɡli.sɛ\
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
- Gildas
Gildas
56,534 corpus weight
- glaucome
glaucome
56,532 corpus weight
- glissait
glissait
56,531 corpus weight
- Gloucester
Gloucester
56,530 corpus weight
- goodbye
goodbye
56,529 corpus weight
- gourmets
gourmets
56,528 corpus weight
What this shows « glissait » 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 | glissait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡli.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #43,470 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « glissait »
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
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de glisser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how glissait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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 "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).