racontait
\ʁa.kɔ̃.tɛ\
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
- pétrolier
pétrolier
85,662 corpus weight
- QG
QG
85,661 corpus weight
- raccourci
raccourci
85,660 corpus weight
- racontait
racontait
85,659 corpus weight
- ralentissem…
ralentissement
85,658 corpus weight
- rangé
rangé
85,657 corpus weight
What this shows « racontait » 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 | racontait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁa.kɔ̃.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #14,342 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « racontait »
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
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de raconter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how racontait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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…
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.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).