paraissaient
\pa.ʁɛ.sɛ\
The verdict
“paraissaient” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,084. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,084
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de paraître (ou paraitre).
Corpus desk
Index FR-paraissaient · paraissaient · French
paraissaient · rank #36,084 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,084
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH papoter
Nearest frequency peer: papoter (-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 « paraissaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pancakes
pancakes
63,919 corpus weight
- papoter
papoter
63,918 corpus weight
- paraissaient
paraissaient
63,917 corpus weight
- paraissant
paraissant
63,916 corpus weight
- parjure
parjure
63,915 corpus weight
- parrainages
parrainages
63,914 corpus weight
What this shows « paraissaient » 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 | paraissaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.ʁɛ.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #36,084 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « paraissaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around paraissaient (IPA \pa.ʁɛ.sɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #36,084 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de paraître (ou paraitre).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for paraissaient, with forms such as "apraissaient", "paarissaient", and "paraisaient". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "paraissent", "paraissait", "paraissant", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is paraissaient, spelled P-A-R-A-I-S-S-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de paraître (ou paraitre).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how paraissaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il s’est demandé ensuite pourquoi certains virus pouvaient contagionner à distance (variole, clavelée, etc.), tandis que d’autres en paraissaient incapables (vaccine, syphilis, etc.), et il a été conduit à penser que cela tenait à l’une des conditions suivantes : nᵒ 1 l’état physique du virus ; nᵒ 2 sa quantité ; nᵒ 3 son mode d’excrétion ; nᵒ 4 sa facult…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apraissaient
- paarissaient
- paraisaient
- paraisasient
- paraissaeint
- paraissaiennt
- paraissaientt
- paraissaietn
- paraissainet
- paraissiaent
- parasisaient
- pariassaient
- parraissaient
- pparaissaient
- praaissaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of paraissaient - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).