mettaient
\mɛ.tɛ\
The verdict
“mettaient” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,441. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,441
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de mettre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mettaient · mettaient · French
mettaient · rank #15,441 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,441
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH menait
Nearest frequency peer: menait (-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 « mettaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- maçon
maçon
84,563 corpus weight
- membrane
membrane
84,562 corpus weight
- menait
menait
84,561 corpus weight
- mettaient
mettaient
84,560 corpus weight
- miennes
miennes
84,559 corpus weight
- millionnaire
millionnaire
84,558 corpus weight
What this shows « mettaient » 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 | mettaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɛ.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #15,441 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mettaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around mettaient (IPA \mɛ.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #15,441 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de mettre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for mettaient, with forms such as "emttaient", "metaient", and "metatient". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "mettent", "mettant", "mettait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 mettaient, spelled M-E-T-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de mettre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mettaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ne vous laisse-t-elle pas votre liberté ? vient-elle d’un pied jaloux jeter un coup d’œil dans les salons de Paris ? vous impose-t-elle les devoirs d’une emprinse, les chaînes que les paladins se mettaient jadis au bras volontairement ?
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emttaient
- metaient
- metatient
- mettaeint
- mettaiennt
- mettaientt
- mettaietn
- mettainet
- mettiaent
- mmettaient
- mtetaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mettaient - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).