moquaient
\mɔ.kɛ\
The verdict
“moquaient” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,305. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,305
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait du verbe moquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moquaient · moquaient · French
moquaient · rank #46,305 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,305
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH montons
Nearest frequency peer: montons (-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 « moquaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mollusque
mollusque
53,699 corpus weight
- montons
montons
53,697 corpus weight
- moquaient
moquaient
53,696 corpus weight
- Mortagne
Mortagne
53,695 corpus weight
- mouraient
mouraient
53,694 corpus weight
- mouth
mouth
53,693 corpus weight
What this shows « moquaient » 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 | moquaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɔ.kɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #46,305 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « moquaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around moquaient (IPA \mɔ.kɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #46,305 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait du verbe moquer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for moquaient, with forms such as "mmoquaient", "moqauient", and "moqquaient". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "moquent", "moquait", "moquant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is moquaient, spelled M-O-Q-U-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait du verbe moquer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how moquaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et les garçons, qui se moquaient volontiers de la « tatillonnerie » de leur père, s’étaient montrés les rois du tatillon.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmoquaient
- moqauient
- moqquaient
- moquaeint
- moquaiennt
- moquaientt
- moquaietn
- moquainet
- moquiaent
- mouqaient
- mqouaient
- omquaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of moquaient - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).