indiquait
\ɛ̃.di.kɛ\
The verdict
“indiquait” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,906. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,906
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 12
- 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 indiquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-indiquait · indiquait · French
indiquait · rank #15,906 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,906
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inclinaison
Nearest frequency peer: inclinaison (-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 « indiquait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- imposante
imposante
84,098 corpus weight
- impressionn…
impressionner
84,097 corpus weight
- inclinaison
inclinaison
84,096 corpus weight
- indiquait
indiquait
84,095 corpus weight
- indépendant…
indépendantiste
84,094 corpus weight
- infliger
infliger
84,093 corpus weight
What this shows « indiquait » 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 | indiquait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.di.kɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #15,906 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « indiquait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around indiquait (IPA \ɛ̃.di.kɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #15,906 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de indiquer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for indiquait, with forms such as "idniquait", "inddiquait", and "indiqauit". 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, "indiquent", "indiquant", "indiquerait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is indiquait, spelled I-N-D-I-Q-U-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de indiquer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how indiquait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un fer à cheval porte-bonheur, cloué sur la muraille, indiquait la demeure d’Honoré Demasure, le communiste.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- idniquait
- inddiquait
- indiqauit
- indiqquait
- indiquaitt
- indiquati
- indiquiat
- indiuqait
- indqiuait
- inidquait
- inndiquait
- nidiquait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of indiquait - 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 "indiquait", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).