perdait

\pɛʁ.dɛ\

/\pɛʁ.dɛ\/ verb

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

corpus weight

What this shows « perdait » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

perdait vs périt
57% similar
perdait vs pesait
71% similar
perdait vs priait
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for perdait
PropertyValue
Headwordperdait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pɛʁ.dɛ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#15,713
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « perdait »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).perdaitse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « peluche » (#15,712), « perplexe » (#15,714), « pb » (#15,711). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « perdait » est au #15,713. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de perdre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how perdait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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 !
  2. 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.

eprdait2pedrait2peradit2perdaitt1perdati2perddait1perdiat2perrdait1
Edit distance from "perdait"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "perdait"?
"perdait" is spelled P-E-R-D-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \pɛʁ.dɛ\.
What does "perdait" mean?
As a verb, "perdait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de perdre.
What words are commonly confused with "perdait"?
"perdait" is commonly confused with "périt", "pesait", "priait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "perdait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "perdait" is \pɛʁ.dɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "perdait" come from?
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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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list