mentait
\mɑ̃.tɛ\
The verdict
“mentait” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,170. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,170
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de mentir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mentait · mentait · French
mentait · rank #45,170 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,170
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mensonger
Nearest frequency peer: mensonger (-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 « mentait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- matérialist…
matérialistes
54,834 corpus weight
- mazarine
mazarine
54,833 corpus weight
- mensonger
mensonger
54,832 corpus weight
- mentait
mentait
54,831 corpus weight
- microbienne
microbienne
54,830 corpus weight
- minister
minister
54,829 corpus weight
What this shows « mentait » 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 | mentait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #45,170 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mentait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around mentait (IPA \mɑ̃.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #45,170 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de mentir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for mentait, with forms such as "emntait", "menatit", and "menntait". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "menti", "mentir", "mental", and more, 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mentait, spelled M-E-N-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de mentir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mentait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle ne vivait plus que par Jacques, elle ne mentait pas, lorsqu’elle disait son effort pour se fondre en lui, car elle n’avait qu’un rêve, qu’il l'emportât, qu’il la gardât dans sa chair.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emntait
- menatit
- menntait
- mentaitt
- mentati
- mentiat
- menttait
- metnait
- mmentait
- mnetait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mentait - 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.
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 "mentait", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).