poussaient
\pu.sɛ\
The verdict
“poussaient” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,464. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,464
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de pousser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poussaient · poussaient · French
poussaient · rank #39,464 · 12 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,464
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH polichinelle
Nearest frequency peer: polichinelle (-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 « poussaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- poilue
poilue
60,540 corpus weight
- pointures
pointures
60,539 corpus weight
- polichinelle
polichinelle
60,538 corpus weight
- poussaient
poussaient
60,537 corpus weight
- preux
preux
60,535 corpus weight
- problems
problems
60,534 corpus weight
What this shows « poussaient » 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 | poussaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pu.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #39,464 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « poussaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around poussaient (IPA \pu.sɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #39,464 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de pousser.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for poussaient, with forms such as "opussaient", "posusaient", and "pousaient". 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, "poussent", "poussant", "poussait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is poussaient, spelled P-O-U-S-S-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de pousser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how poussaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des hommes poussaient, une armée noire, vengeresse, qui germait lentement dans les sillons, grandissant pour les récoltes du siècle futur, et dont la germination allait faire bientôt éclater la terre.
Le milieu Benjamin Stambouli, arrivé à l’été 2015, se souvient d’avoir mis les pieds dans une « équipe bâtie à l’ancienne, avec des joueurs d’expérience qui tenaient la charpente et des jeunes qui poussaient ».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opussaient
- posusaient
- pousaient
- pousasient
- poussaeint
- poussaiennt
- poussaientt
- poussaietn
- poussainet
- poussiaent
- ppoussaient
- puossaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of poussaient - 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 "poussaient", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).