participaient
\paʁ.ti.si.pɛ\
The verdict
“participaient” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,904. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,904
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de participer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-participaient · participaient · French
participaient · rank #29,904 · 19 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,904
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH papauté
Nearest frequency peer: papauté (-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 « participaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- paisibles
paisibles
70,100 corpus weight
- pansements
pansements
70,099 corpus weight
- papauté
papauté
70,098 corpus weight
- participaie…
participaient
70,097 corpus weight
- percuter
percuter
70,096 corpus weight
- piazza
piazza
70,095 corpus weight
What this shows « participaient » 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 | participaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \paʁ.ti.si.pɛ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #29,904 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « participaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around participaient (IPA \paʁ.ti.si.pɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #29,904 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de participer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for participaient, with forms such as "aprticipaient", "paritcipaient", and "parrticipaient". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "participent", "participant", "participait", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is participaient, spelled P-A-R-T-I-C-I-P-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de participer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how participaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les légionnaires du centurion Marcus, officier d’Arles, participaient vendredi 12 août à une marche expérimentale sur quatre kilomètres entre Le Fâ et Arces-sur-Gironde.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aprticipaient
- paritcipaient
- parrticipaient
- partciipaient
- particcipaient
- particiapient
- participaeint
- participaiennt
- participaientt
- participaietn
- participainet
- participiaent
- particippaient
- particpiaient
- partiicpaient
- partticipaient
- patricipaient
- pparticipaient
- praticipaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of participaient - 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 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).