jouaient
\ʒwɛ\
The verdict
“jouaient” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,166. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,166
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de jouer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jouaient · jouaient · French
jouaient · rank #16,166 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,166
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH Joséphine
Nearest frequency peer: Joséphine (-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 « jouaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- invitations
invitations
83,839 corpus weight
- jetez
jetez
83,837 corpus weight
- Joséphine
Joséphine
83,836 corpus weight
- jouaient
jouaient
83,835 corpus weight
- ledit
ledit
83,832 corpus weight
- libraires
libraires
83,831 corpus weight
What this shows « jouaient » 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 | jouaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒwɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,166 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « jouaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around jouaient (IPA \ʒwɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #16,166 among 957 “J” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de jouer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for jouaient, with forms such as "jjouaient", "joauient", and "jouaeint". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "jouent", "jouant", "jouait", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is jouaient, spelled J-O-U-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de jouer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how jouaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La musique et ceux qui en jouaient formaient la toile de fond des nombreuses soirées passées ensemble et la politique se retrouvait souvent au centre de leurs discussions.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- jjouaient
- joauient
- jouaeint
- jouaiennt
- jouaientt
- jouaietn
- jouainet
- jouiaent
- juoaient
- ojuaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of jouaient - 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
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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 (10 here; floor ≥5).