possèdent
\pɔ.sɛd\
The verdict
“possèdent” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,486. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,486
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de posséder.
Corpus desk
Index FR-possedent · possèdent · French
possèdent · rank #5,486 · 13 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,486
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH produite
Nearest frequency peer: produite (+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 « possèdent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Ottawa
Ottawa
94,519 corpus weight
- pari
pari
94,518 corpus weight
- plomb
plomb
94,517 corpus weight
- possèdent
possèdent
94,515 corpus weight
- produite
produite
94,514 corpus weight
- provient
provient
94,512 corpus weight
What this shows « possèdent » 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 | possèdent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɔ.sɛd\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,486 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « possèdent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around possèdent (IPA \pɔ.sɛd\), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,486 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for possèdent, with forms such as "opssèdent", "possdèent", and "possedent". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "posséder", "possédez", "possédés", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is possèdent, spelled P-O-S-S-È-D-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de posséder.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de posséder.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how possèdent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Or, dans la sphère où se développent leurs facultés, les hommes d’intelligence possèdent la vue circumspective du colimaçon, le flair du chien et l’oreille de la taupe ; ils voient, ils entendent tout autour d’eux.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opssèdent
- possdèent
- possedent
- possèddent
- possèdennt
- possèdentt
- possèdetn
- possèdnet
- possèednt
- posèdent
- posèsdent
- ppossèdent
- psosèdent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of possèdent - 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 "possèdent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).