poussait
\pu.sɛ\
The verdict
“poussait” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,980. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,980
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de pousser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poussait · poussait · French
poussait · rank #22,980 · 9 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,980
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pope
Nearest frequency peer: pope (-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 « poussait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- plongeurs
plongeurs
77,024 corpus weight
- pluralisme
pluralisme
77,023 corpus weight
- pope
pope
77,022 corpus weight
- poussait
poussait
77,021 corpus weight
- pragmatisme
pragmatisme
77,020 corpus weight
- prefere
prefere
77,019 corpus weight
What this shows « poussait » 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 | poussait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pu.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #22,980 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « poussait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around poussait (IPA \pu.sɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #22,980 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de pousser.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for poussait, with forms such as "opussait", "posusait", and "pousait". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "pouvait", "poussin", "poussent", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is poussait, spelled P-O-U-S-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de pousser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how poussait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Juve avait dûment stylé la jeune femme, et, maintenant, il la poussait vers le rendez-vous.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opussait
- posusait
- pousait
- pousasit
- poussaitt
- poussati
- poussiat
- ppoussait
- puossait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of poussait - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "poussait", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).