percevait
\pɛʁ.sə.vɛ\
The verdict
“percevait” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,956. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,956
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de percevoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-percevait · percevait · French
percevait · rank #41,956 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,956
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pennes
Nearest frequency peer: pennes (-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 « percevait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Paxton
Paxton
58,048 corpus weight
- Peltier
Peltier
58,047 corpus weight
- pennes
pennes
58,046 corpus weight
- percevait
percevait
58,045 corpus weight
- photography
photography
58,043 corpus weight
- pilar
pilar
58,042 corpus weight
What this shows « percevait » 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 | percevait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.sə.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #41,956 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « percevait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around percevait (IPA \pɛʁ.sə.vɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #41,956 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de percevoir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for percevait, with forms such as "eprcevait", "pecrevait", and "perccevait". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Perceval", "percevoir", 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 to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is percevait, spelled P-E-R-C-E-V-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de percevoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how percevait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le feu des fusils Mauser commença ; ce fut un vacarme épouvantable dans lequel on percevait le ronflement des obus à la lydite, le crépitement des fusils Metford, les éclats des mitrailleuses boers et les sifflements des Mauser.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprcevait
- pecrevait
- perccevait
- perceavit
- percevaitt
- percevati
- perceviat
- percevvait
- percveait
- perecvait
- perrcevait
- ppercevait
- precevait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of percevait - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).