jouissait

\ʒwi.sɛ\

/\ʒwi.sɛ\/ verb

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The verdict

“jouissait” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,884. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#37,884
frequency rank, French
957
“J” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de jouir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-jouissait · jouissait · French

jouissait · rank #37,884 · 10 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #37,884
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 957
  • PHOTO-FINISH Johanne

Nearest frequency peer: Johanne (-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 « jouissait »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « jouissait » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

jouissait vs jouissif
78% similar
jouissait vs jouissent
78% similar
jouissait vs jouissant
89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for jouissait
PropertyValue
Headwordjouissait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʒwi.sɛ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#37,884
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « jouissait »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.jouissaitse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Johanne » (#37,883), « Joffre » (#37,882), « juxtaposition » (#37,886). Parmi 957 lemmes en « J », « jouissait » est au #37,884. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around jouissait (IPA \ʒwi.sɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #37,884 among 957 “J” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de jouir.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for jouissait, with forms such as "jjouissait", "joiussait", and "jouisait". 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, "jouissif", "jouissent", "jouissant", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 jouissait, spelled J-O-U-I-S-S-A-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de jouir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how jouissait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La réputation dont jouissait la maison Bauer avait naturellement excité la jalousie de quelques maisons rivales ; une d’entre elles s’avisa de vouloir désarmorier l’enseigne des Trois-Etoiles-d’Or, et grâce à l’influence de plusieurs personnages assez haut placés, le patron de Rose Himmel allait se voir dépossédé de la fourniture de la cour, ce qui eût ét…

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • jjouissait
  • joiussait
  • jouisait
  • jouisasit
  • jouissaitt
  • jouissati
  • jouissiat
  • jousisait
  • juoissait
  • ojuissait

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of jouissait - 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.

jjouissait1joiussait2jouisait1jouisasit2jouissaitt1jouissati2jouissiat2jousisait2
Edit distance from "jouissait"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "jouissait"?
"jouissait" is spelled J-O-U-I-S-S-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒwi.sɛ\.
What does "jouissait" mean?
As a verb, "jouissait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de jouir.
What words are commonly confused with "jouissait"?
"jouissait" is commonly confused with "jouissif", "jouissent", "jouissant". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "jouissait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "jouissait" is \ʒwi.sɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "jouissait" come from?
"jouissait" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "jouissait", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

listés10 variantsinfimes10 variantsmacaron10 variantsimmaculé10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list