racontait

\ʁa.kɔ̃.tɛ\

/\ʁa.kɔ̃.tɛ\/ verb

The verdict

“racontait” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,342. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#14,342
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de raconter.

Corpus desk

Index FR-racontait · racontait · French

racontait · rank #14,342 · 13 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #14,342
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH raccourci

Nearest frequency peer: raccourci (-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 « racontait »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « racontait » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

racontait vs reconnaît
67% similar
racontait vs racontent
78% similar
racontait vs racontant
89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for racontait
PropertyValue
Headwordracontait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʁa.kɔ̃.tɛ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#14,342
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « racontait »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).racontaitse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « raccourci » (#14,341), « ralentissement » (#14,343), « QG » (#14,340). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « racontait » est au #14,342. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around racontait (IPA \ʁa.kɔ̃.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,342 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de raconter.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for racontait, with forms such as "arcontait", "raccontait", and "racnotait". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "reconnaît", "racontent", "racontant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is racontait, spelled R-A-C-O-N-T-A-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de raconter.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how racontait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ce dernier combat, qu’il racontait à sa manière et dont sa mémoire troublée ne gardait que le résultat funeste, avait dû présenter de terribles dangers, car il était sans armes, tandis que ses adversaires étaient armés tous les deux, et, avant de broyer l’une contre l’autre, avec la vigueur que donne la manie, les têtes de maître Gruff et de sa femme, il…
  2. Et puis, il avait appris, par exemple dans ces cafés d’un Moscou débrejnévisé, où tout maintenant se racontait librement, qu’Eugen parlait très bien français : on pouvait s’entendre, non ?

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • arcontait
  • raccontait
  • racnotait
  • raconatit
  • raconntait
  • racontaitt
  • racontati
  • racontiat
  • raconttait
  • racotnait
  • raocntait
  • rcaontait
  • rracontait

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of racontait - 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.

arcontait2raccontait1racnotait2raconatit2raconntait1racontaitt1racontati2racontiat2
Edit distance from "racontait"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "racontait"?
"racontait" is spelled R-A-C-O-N-T-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁa.kɔ̃.tɛ\.
What does "racontait" mean?
As a verb, "racontait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de raconter.
What words are commonly confused with "racontait"?
"racontait" is commonly confused with "reconnaît", "racontent", "racontant". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "racontait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "racontait" is \ʁa.kɔ̃.tɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "racontait" come from?
"racontait" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "racontait", 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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list