plaisait
\plɛ.zɛ\
The verdict
“plaisait” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,659. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,659
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de plaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plaisait · plaisait · French
plaisait · rank #13,659 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,659
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pizzas
Nearest frequency peer: pizzas (-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 « plaisait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pitoyable
pitoyable
86,345 corpus weight
- Pitt
Pitt
86,344 corpus weight
- pizzas
pizzas
86,343 corpus weight
- plaisait
plaisait
86,342 corpus weight
- plaisent
plaisent
86,341 corpus weight
- plasma
plasma
86,340 corpus weight
What this shows « plaisait » 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 | plaisait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \plɛ.zɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,659 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « plaisait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around plaisait (IPA \plɛ.zɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #13,659 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de plaire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for plaisait, with forms such as "lpaisait", "palisait", and "plaiasit". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "plaisir", "plaisant", "plaisent", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is plaisait, spelled P-L-A-I-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de plaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plaisait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais il commence à se dérussiser et je n’en suis pas fâchée, car cette enveloppe-là, ne me plaisait pas du tout.
Eugène Freyssinet, qui a su faire passer la précontrainte d’une utilisation implicite à un recours explicite, se plaisait à rappeler que c’est en attachant des lianes autour d’un bâton et d’une pierre taillée que l’homme préhistorique a fabriqué une hache ; il ajoutait : « Toute œuvre de l’homme n’existe qu’en vertu de réactions élastiques obtenues par bo…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpaisait
- palisait
- plaiasit
- plaisaitt
- plaisati
- plaisiat
- plaissait
- plasiait
- pliasait
- pllaisait
- pplaisait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plaisait - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).