marchait
\maʁ.ʃɛ\
The verdict
“marchait” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,193. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,193
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de marcher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marchait · marchait · French
marchait · rank #9,193 · 12 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,193
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH lots
Nearest frequency peer: lots (-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 « marchait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- loger
loger
90,811 corpus weight
- Lorient
Lorient
90,810 corpus weight
- lots
lots
90,809 corpus weight
- marchait
marchait
90,808 corpus weight
- massivement
massivement
90,807 corpus weight
- Matthew
Matthew
90,806 corpus weight
What this shows « marchait » 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 | marchait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \maʁ.ʃɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,193 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « marchait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around marchait (IPA \maʁ.ʃɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #9,193 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de marcher.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for marchait, with forms such as "amrchait", "macrhait", and "marcahit". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Marchal", "marchand", "marchent", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is marchait, spelled M-A-R-C-H-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de marcher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how marchait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À ce moment, il aperçut un ours superbe, un grizzly à fourrure noire, de haute taille, qui marchait sur ses pieds de derrière en longeant la voie, troublé sans doute par cette lutte des éléments qui impressionne si vivement les animaux.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrchait
- macrhait
- marcahit
- marcchait
- marchaitt
- marchati
- marchhait
- marchiat
- marhcait
- marrchait
- mmarchait
- mrachait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of marchait - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "marchait", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (12 here; floor ≥5).