recherchait
\ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃɛ\
The verdict
“recherchait” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,510. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,510
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rechercher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recherchait · recherchait · French
recherchait · rank #29,510 · 17 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,510
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH recentrer
Nearest frequency peer: recentrer (-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 « recherchait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- raviver
raviver
70,494 corpus weight
- rayonne
rayonne
70,493 corpus weight
- recentrer
recentrer
70,492 corpus weight
- recherchait
recherchait
70,491 corpus weight
- recoller
recoller
70,490 corpus weight
- recueillie
recueillie
70,489 corpus weight
What this shows « recherchait » 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 | recherchait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #29,510 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « recherchait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around recherchait (IPA \ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #29,510 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rechercher.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for recherchait, with forms such as "ercherchait", "rceherchait", and "reccherchait". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "recherchent", "recherchant", "recherchais", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is recherchait, spelled R-E-C-H-E-R-C-H-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rechercher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how recherchait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après une partie de cache-cache longue de vingt-quatre ans, le tétraka sombre, une petite espèce de passereau vivant uniquement à Madagascar, a de nouveau pointé le bout de son bec, au grand soulagement de la communauté scientifique, qui le recherchait depuis… 1999.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ercherchait
- rceherchait
- reccherchait
- recehrchait
- rechecrhait
- rechercahit
- rechercchait
- recherchaitt
- recherchati
- recherchhait
- recherchiat
- recherhcait
- recherrchait
- rechherchait
- rechrechait
- rehcerchait
- rrecherchait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of recherchait - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).