paraissait
\pa.ʁɛ.sɛ\
The verdict
“paraissait” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,822. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,822
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de paraître (ou paraitre).
Corpus desk
Index FR-paraissait · paraissait · French
paraissait · rank #11,822 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,822
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH papillons
Nearest frequency peer: papillons (-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 « paraissait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- osent
osent
88,182 corpus weight
- panorama
panorama
88,181 corpus weight
- papillons
papillons
88,180 corpus weight
- paraissait
paraissait
88,179 corpus weight
- paroi
paroi
88,178 corpus weight
- partenariats
partenariats
88,177 corpus weight
What this shows « paraissait » 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 | paraissait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.ʁɛ.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #11,822 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « paraissait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around paraissait (IPA \pa.ʁɛ.sɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #11,822 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de paraître (ou paraitre).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for paraissait, with forms such as "apraissait", "paarissait", and "paraisait". 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, "paraissent", "paraîtrait", "paraissant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 paraissait, spelled P-A-R-A-I-S-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de paraître (ou paraitre).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how paraissait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le secret de l’ésotérisme juif aussi bien talmudique que médiéval, c’est-à-dire kabbalistique, tient à ce fait : avoir dès le départ fait preuve d’une certaine conformation avec le donné révélé d’où toute préoccupation mystique paraissait absente.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apraissait
- paarissait
- paraisait
- paraisasit
- paraissaitt
- paraissati
- paraissiat
- parasisait
- pariassait
- parraissait
- pparaissait
- praaissait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of paraissait - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).