manquait
\mɑ̃.kɛ\
The verdict
“manquait” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,783. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,783
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 11
- 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 manquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-manquait · manquait · French
manquait · rank #5,783 · 11 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,783
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH manifester
Nearest frequency peer: manifester (-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 « manquait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Lyonnais
Lyonnais
94,221 corpus weight
- manga
manga
94,220 corpus weight
- manifester
manifester
94,219 corpus weight
- manquait
manquait
94,218 corpus weight
- maths
maths
94,217 corpus weight
- militant
militant
94,216 corpus weight
What this shows « manquait » 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 | manquait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.kɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,783 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « manquait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around manquait (IPA \mɑ̃.kɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,783 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de manquer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for manquait, with forms such as "amnquait", "mannquait", and "manqauit". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "moquait", "manquent", "marquant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is manquait, spelled M-A-N-Q-U-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de manquer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how manquait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il manquait pas de souffle, le Fifi.
Finalement, sa femme ne lui manquait pas tant que ça - ils avaient perdu l’habitude de vivre ensemble et ne pourraient peut-être jamais s’y réhabituer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amnquait
- mannquait
- manqauit
- manqquait
- manquaitt
- manquati
- manquiat
- manuqait
- maqnuait
- mmanquait
- mnaquait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of manquait - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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).