ouvrait
\u.vʁɛ\
The verdict
“ouvrait” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,211. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,211
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de ouvrir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ouvrait · ouvrait · French
ouvrait · rank #17,211 · 9 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,211
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH opera
Nearest frequency peer: opera (-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 « ouvrait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- obtenez
obtenez
82,793 corpus weight
- obéissance
obéissance
82,792 corpus weight
- opera
opera
82,791 corpus weight
- ouvrait
ouvrait
82,790 corpus weight
- ouvrières
ouvrières
82,789 corpus weight
- overdose
overdose
82,788 corpus weight
What this shows « ouvrait » 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 | ouvrait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \u.vʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #17,211 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ouvrait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around ouvrait (IPA \u.vʁɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #17,211 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de ouvrir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for ouvrait, with forms such as "ourvait", "ouvarit", and "ouvraitt". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "ouvrir", "ouvrent", "ouvrant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ouvrait, spelled O-U-V-R-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de ouvrir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ouvrait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Entre des maisons grises, des resserres, des magasins d’outillage, des bars, des trottoirs étroits, la rue de Lappe ouvrait sa médiocre perspective.
Comme un gigantesque cimetière profané s’ouvrait dans les filons de la houillère, grandissait, se perdait dans les acculs lointains, là où les claque-dents devaient si bien dormir leur dernier sommeil sous les toits écrasés des tailles.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ourvait
- ouvarit
- ouvraitt
- ouvrati
- ouvriat
- ouvrrait
- ouvvrait
- ovurait
- uovrait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ouvrait - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).