racontaient
\ʁa.kɔ̃.tɛ\
The verdict
“racontaient” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,666. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,666
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 16
- 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 de raconter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-racontaient · racontaient · French
racontaient · rank #44,666 · 16 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,666
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH racer
Nearest frequency peer: racer (-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 « racontaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- racer
racer
55,336 corpus weight
- racontaient
racontaient
55,335 corpus weight
- radon
radon
55,334 corpus weight
- rafraîchiss…
rafraîchissante
55,333 corpus weight
- railleries
railleries
55,332 corpus weight
- ralliés
ralliés
55,331 corpus weight
What this shows « racontaient » 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 | racontaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁa.kɔ̃.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #44,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « racontaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around racontaient (IPA \ʁa.kɔ̃.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #44,666 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de raconter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for racontaient, with forms such as "arcontaient", "raccontaient", and "racnotaient". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "racontent", "racontait", "racontant", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is racontaient, spelled R-A-C-O-N-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de raconter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how racontaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’homme était Oosting, plus souvent appelé le Baes, occupé à fumer une courte pipe en terre tout en écoutant ce que ses voisins racontaient.
Ce que Gasana et Shema racontaient, Rosalie l’entendait aussi de la bouche des Pères blancs lorsqu’elle se rendait à la paroisse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arcontaient
- raccontaient
- racnotaient
- raconatient
- raconntaient
- racontaeint
- racontaiennt
- racontaientt
- racontaietn
- racontainet
- racontiaent
- raconttaient
- racotnaient
- raocntaient
- rcaontaient
- rracontaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of racontaient - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).