observait
\ob.sɛʁ.vɛ\
The verdict
“observait” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,815. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,815
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de observer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-observait · observait · French
observait · rank #26,815 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,815
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH obstination
Nearest frequency peer: obstination (+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 « observait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Norton
Norton
73,189 corpus weight
- notant
notant
73,188 corpus weight
- observait
observait
73,186 corpus weight
- obstination
obstination
73,185 corpus weight
- obéissant
obéissant
73,184 corpus weight
- Olaf
Olaf
73,183 corpus weight
What this shows « observait » 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 | observait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ob.sɛʁ.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #26,815 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « observait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around observait (IPA \ob.sɛʁ.vɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #26,815 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de observer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for observait, with forms such as "boservait", "obbservait", and "obesrvait". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "oserait", "observant", "observent", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is observait, spelled O-B-S-E-R-V-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de observer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how observait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Or, tandis qu’il bonissait avec cette verve joviale, son œil rusé m’observait…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- boservait
- obbservait
- obesrvait
- obseravit
- obserrvait
- observaitt
- observati
- observiat
- observvait
- obsevrait
- obsrevait
- obsservait
- osbervait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of observait - 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).