recherchaient
\ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃɛ\
The verdict
“recherchaient” has 20 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,144. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,144
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 20
- 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 rechercher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recherchaient · recherchaient · French
recherchaient · rank #48,144 · 20 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,144
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH recoucher
Nearest frequency peer: recoucher (+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 « recherchaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rattrapés
rattrapés
51,860 corpus weight
- recevabilité
recevabilité
51,859 corpus weight
- recherchaie…
recherchaient
51,857 corpus weight
- recoucher
recoucher
51,856 corpus weight
- rehaussée
rehaussée
51,855 corpus weight
- rejoué
rejoué
51,854 corpus weight
What this shows « recherchaient » 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 | recherchaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃɛ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #48,144 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « recherchaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around recherchaient (IPA \ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #48,144 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rechercher.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for recherchaient, with forms such as "ercherchaient", "rceherchaient", and "reccherchaient". 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, "recherchent", "recherchant", "recherchait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is recherchaient, spelled R-E-C-H-E-R-C-H-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rechercher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how recherchaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était l’arme qu’ils recherchaient, près de l’homme qu’ils recherchaient.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ercherchaient
- rceherchaient
- reccherchaient
- recehrchaient
- rechecrhaient
- rechercahient
- rechercchaient
- recherchaeint
- recherchaiennt
- recherchaientt
- recherchaietn
- recherchainet
- recherchhaient
- recherchiaent
- recherhcaient
- recherrchaient
- rechherchaient
- rechrechaient
- rehcerchaient
- rrecherchaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of recherchaient - 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 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 here; floor ≥5).