louait

/\lwɛ\/ verb

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#38,901

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

12

similar word pairs

louait is aFrenchverb. It means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de louer. Pronounced \lwɛ\. Often confused with louis and Louie.

Key facts for louait
PropertyValue
Headwordlouait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\lwɛ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#38,901
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of louait in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for louait is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lwɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #38,901 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de louer.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for louait, with forms such as "llouait", "loauit", and "louaitt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "louis", "Louie", "louent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is louait, spelled L-O-U-A-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: llouait,loauit,louaitt,louati,louiat,luoait,oluait

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for louait

Misspelling Variants of "louait"

llouait7loauit6louaitt7louati6louiat6luoait6oluait6
Misspelling Variants of "louait"

Frequency rank: #38,901 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "louait"?
"louait" is spelled L-O-U-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \lwɛ\.
What does "louait" mean?
As a verb, "louait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de louer.
What words are commonly confused with "louait"?
"louait" is commonly confused with "louis", "Louie", "louent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "louait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "louait" is \lwɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "louait" come from?
"louait" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.