perdait
\pɛʁ.dɛ\
The verdict
“perdait” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,713. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,713
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de perdre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perdait · perdait · French
perdait · rank #15,713 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,713
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH peluche
Nearest frequency peer: peluche (-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 « perdait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- patinoire
patinoire
84,291 corpus weight
- pb
pb
84,290 corpus weight
- peluche
peluche
84,289 corpus weight
- perdait
perdait
84,288 corpus weight
- perplexe
perplexe
84,287 corpus weight
- persuader
persuader
84,286 corpus weight
What this shows « perdait » 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 | perdait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.dɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,713 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « perdait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around perdait (IPA \pɛʁ.dɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #15,713 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de perdre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for perdait, with forms such as "eprdait", "pedrait", and "peradit". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "périt", "pesait", "priait", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is perdait, spelled P-E-R-D-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de perdre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how perdait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais Jules prenait un air ennuyé comme malgré lui, et Laurette, qui ne perdait rien de la situation, arborait un sourire signifiant : Tu peux toujours courir mon lapin désenligné !
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:
- eprdait
- pedrait
- peradit
- perdaitt
- perdati
- perddait
- perdiat
- perrdait
- pperdait
- predait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of perdait - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "perdait", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).