quittaient
\ki.tɛ\
The verdict
“quittaient” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,947. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,947
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe quitter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quittaient · quittaient · French
quittaient · rank #40,947 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,947
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH quantiques
Nearest frequency peer: quantiques (-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 « quittaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- périscope
périscope
59,057 corpus weight
- pétri
pétri
59,056 corpus weight
- quantiques
quantiques
59,055 corpus weight
- quittaient
quittaient
59,054 corpus weight
- raclure
raclure
59,053 corpus weight
- rajoutent
rajoutent
59,051 corpus weight
What this shows « quittaient » 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 | quittaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ki.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #40,947 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « quittaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around quittaient (IPA \ki.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #40,947 among 352 “Q” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe quitter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for quittaient, with forms such as "qiuttaient", "qquittaient", and "quitaient". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "quittent", "quittant", "quittait", 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 to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is quittaient, spelled Q-U-I-T-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe quitter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quittaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Céline Thiébault dans la cuisine avait distribué les paies et l’un après l’autre, sans hâte, les journaliers quittaient Hurtebise.
Depuis, ils ne se quittaient plus. À tel point que la troupe bruissait des plus folles rumeurs à leur sujet. Des ragots circulaient même, des histoires rocambolesques.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qiuttaient
- qquittaient
- quitaient
- quitatient
- quittaeint
- quittaiennt
- quittaientt
- quittaietn
- quittainet
- quittiaent
- qutitaient
- uqittaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quittaient - 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
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).