jouait
\ʒwɛ\
The verdict
“jouait” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,882. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,882
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de jouer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-jouait · jouait · French
jouait · rank #5,882 · 7 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,882
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH Jonathan
Nearest frequency peer: Jonathan (-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 « jouait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- invisible
invisible
94,122 corpus weight
- Jason
Jason
94,121 corpus weight
- Jonathan
Jonathan
94,120 corpus weight
- jouait
jouait
94,119 corpus weight
- Juan
Juan
94,118 corpus weight
- juridiques
juridiques
94,117 corpus weight
What this shows « jouait » 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 | jouait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒwɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,882 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « jouait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around jouait (IPA \ʒwɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,882 among 957 “J” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de jouer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for jouait, with forms such as "jjouait", "joauit", and "jouaitt". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "joui", "jouet", "jouir", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 jouait, spelled J-O-U-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de jouer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how jouait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’avais l’interdiction formelle de lui adresser la parole pendant qu’il jouait sous prétexte que je le déconcentrais.
Le long de la mer apparaissaient quelques rescifs autour desquels se jouait l’eau en leur donnant l’apparence de grandes roses blanches flottant sur l’étendue liquide et venant se poser sur le rivage.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- jjouait
- joauit
- jouaitt
- jouati
- jouiat
- juoait
- ojuait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of jouait - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).