inquiétaient
\ɛ̃.kje.tɛ\
The verdict
“inquiétaient” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,726. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,726
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de inquiéter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inquietaient · inquiétaient · French
inquiétaient · rank #49,726 · 17 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,726
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inopinée
Nearest frequency peer: inopinée (-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 « inquiétaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- injustifiées
injustifiées
50,278 corpus weight
- inlassable
inlassable
50,277 corpus weight
- inopinée
inopinée
50,276 corpus weight
- inquiétaient
inquiétaient
50,275 corpus weight
- insaisissab…
insaisissables
50,274 corpus weight
- inspirateur
inspirateur
50,273 corpus weight
What this shows « inquiétaient » 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 | inquiétaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.kje.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #49,726 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « inquiétaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around inquiétaient (IPA \ɛ̃.kje.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #49,726 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de inquiéter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for inquiétaient, with forms such as "innquiétaient", "inqiuétaient", and "inqquiétaient". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "inquiétant", "inquiètent", "inquiétait", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is inquiétaient, spelled I-N-Q-U-I-É-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de inquiéter.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- innquiétaient
- inqiuétaient
- inqquiétaient
- inquietaient
- inquitéaient
- inquiéatient
- inquiétaeint
- inquiétaiennt
- inquiétaientt
- inquiétaietn
- inquiétainet
- inquiétiaent
- inquiéttaient
- inquéitaient
- inuqiétaient
- iqnuiétaient
- niquiétaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of inquiétaient - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).