posaient
\po.zɛ\
The verdict
“posaient” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,408. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,408
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de poser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-posaient · posaient · French
posaient · rank #33,408 · 11 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,408
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poursuis
Nearest frequency peer: poursuis (+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 « posaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pod
pod
66,597 corpus weight
- Pokémons
Pokémons
66,596 corpus weight
- Polly
Polly
66,595 corpus weight
- posaient
posaient
66,593 corpus weight
- poursuis
poursuis
66,592 corpus weight
- practice
practice
66,590 corpus weight
What this shows « posaient » 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 | posaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \po.zɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #33,408 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « posaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around posaient (IPA \po.zɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #33,408 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de poser.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for posaient, with forms such as "opsaient", "poasient", and "posaeint". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "posent", "posant", "posait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is posaient, spelled P-O-S-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de poser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how posaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’en avais très envie, vraiment, et il m’emmenait dans sa voiture sur les routes avec leurs barrages et les gendarmes qui posaient des questions, pour te chercher à Crouy-sur-Ourcq, à Coulommiers…
Nous redécouvrîmes le monde extérieur, les premiers rayons de soleil se posaient sur les pins détrempés, la brume enveloppait la terrasse humide et luisante.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opsaient
- poasient
- posaeint
- posaiennt
- posaientt
- posaietn
- posainet
- posiaent
- possaient
- pposaient
- psoaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of posaient - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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).