inquiétait
\ɛ̃.kje.tɛ\
The verdict
“inquiétait” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,253. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,253
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de inquiéter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inquietait · inquiétait · French
inquiétait · rank #24,253 · 14 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,253
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH instables
Nearest frequency peer: instables (+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 « inquiétait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- indulgence
indulgence
75,751 corpus weight
- inflammatoi…
inflammatoires
75,750 corpus weight
- inquiétait
inquiétait
75,748 corpus weight
- instables
instables
75,747 corpus weight
- insulaires
insulaires
75,746 corpus weight
- intello
intello
75,745 corpus weight
What this shows « inquiétait » 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 | inquiétait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.kje.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #24,253 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « inquiétait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around inquiétait (IPA \ɛ̃.kje.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #24,253 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de inquiéter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for inquiétait, with forms such as "innquiétait", "inqiuétait", and "inqquiétait". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "inquiétant", "inquiètent", "inquiétante", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is inquiétait, spelled I-N-Q-U-I-É-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de inquiéter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inquiétait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces sortes de réveils étaient marquées par un cri aigu et par la projection des membres, tantôt d’un côté, tantôt d’un autre, et les premiers jours par une loquacité semi-délirante qui n’inquiétait pas moins que la stupeur.
Sur Instagram, le compte d’un naturopathe revient sur un extrait de l’émission de France 5, C à vous, où l’acteur Mark Ruffalo s’inquiétait des conséquences du Teflon sur la santé.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- innquiétait
- inqiuétait
- inqquiétait
- inquietait
- inquitéait
- inquiéatit
- inquiétaitt
- inquiétati
- inquiétiat
- inquiéttait
- inquéitait
- inuqiétait
- iqnuiétait
- niquiétait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of inquiétait - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).