jetaient
\ʒə.tɛ\
The verdict
“jetaient” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,416. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,416
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de jeter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jetaient · jetaient · French
jetaient · rank #42,416 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,416
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH Jericho
Nearest frequency peer: Jericho (-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 « jetaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Jameson
Jameson
57,588 corpus weight
- Jericho
Jericho
57,586 corpus weight
- jetaient
jetaient
57,585 corpus weight
- jouxte
jouxte
57,584 corpus weight
- jugeaient
jugeaient
57,583 corpus weight
- juteuse
juteuse
57,582 corpus weight
What this shows « jetaient » 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 | jetaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒə.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #42,416 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « jetaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around jetaient (IPA \ʒə.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #42,416 among 957 “J” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de jeter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for jetaient, with forms such as "ejtaient", "jeatient", and "jetaeint". 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, "jetant", "jetait", "jettent", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is jetaient, spelled J-E-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de jeter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jetaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La figure, de l’ovale si souvent trouvé par Raphaël pour ses madones, se distingue par la couleur sobre et virginale des pommettes, aussi douce que la rose de Bengale, et sur laquelle les longs cils d’une paupière diaphane jetaient des ombres mélangées de lumière.
Ça et là, en chaque vallée traversée, des cascades à la fine silhouette argentée se jetaient du haut des parois rocheuses et couraient rejoindre la Norsen, zigzaguant entre rocs et troncs, formant rus et ruisseaux gentelets, à l'eau pure et froide.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ejtaient
- jeatient
- jetaeint
- jetaiennt
- jetaientt
- jetaietn
- jetainet
- jetiaent
- jettaient
- jjetaient
- jteaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of jetaient - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).