menaient
\mə.nɛ\
The verdict
“menaient” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,066. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,066
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de mener.
Corpus desk
Index FR-menaient · menaient · French
menaient · rank #32,066 · 11 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,066
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH menaçante
Nearest frequency peer: menaçante (+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 « menaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- malformation
malformation
67,938 corpus weight
- manchot
manchot
67,937 corpus weight
- menaient
menaient
67,935 corpus weight
- menaçante
menaçante
67,934 corpus weight
- mente
mente
67,933 corpus weight
- Mercer
Mercer
67,932 corpus weight
What this shows « menaient » 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 | menaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mə.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,066 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « menaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around menaient (IPA \mə.nɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #32,066 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de mener.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for menaient, with forms such as "emnaient", "meanient", and "menaeint". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "mènent", "menant", "menait", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is menaient, spelled M-E-N-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de mener.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how menaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La cohabitation était assez harmonieuse mais les deux communautés menaient des vies distinctes. Les enfants juifs fréquentaient l’école du kheider, les enfants catholiques l’école de leur église.
Quoiqu’elle ne comportât point de porte, la maison avait une entrée, à laquelle menaient les marches.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emnaient
- meanient
- menaeint
- menaiennt
- menaientt
- menaietn
- menainet
- meniaent
- mennaient
- mmenaient
- mneaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of menaient - 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
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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).