regardaient
\ʁə.ɡaʁ.dɛ\
The verdict
“regardaient” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,064. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,064
- 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 regarder.
Corpus desk
Index FR-regardaient · regardaient · French
regardaient · rank #22,064 · 16 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,064
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH relativité
Nearest frequency peer: relativité (+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 « regardaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ratifié
ratifié
77,940 corpus weight
- reconnaissa…
reconnaissait
77,939 corpus weight
- regardaient
regardaient
77,937 corpus weight
- relativité
relativité
77,936 corpus weight
- rencontrera
rencontrera
77,935 corpus weight
- renforçant
renforçant
77,934 corpus weight
What this shows « regardaient » 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 | regardaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.ɡaʁ.dɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #22,064 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « regardaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around regardaient (IPA \ʁə.ɡaʁ.dɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #22,064 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de regarder.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for regardaient, with forms such as "ergardaient", "reagrdaient", and "regadraient". 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, "regardant", "regardent", "regardait", 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 is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is regardaient, spelled R-E-G-A-R-D-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de regarder.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how regardaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pendant ce récit, tous le regardaient, sans qu’il se troublât, se tapant sur la poitrine, attestant la lumière du jour.
Alors que l’on comptait les morts après la montée supersonique du Jaizkibel, le grimpeur-puncheur de la Cofidis a surgi de nulle part sous la flamme rouge, alors que les favoris se regardaient.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ergardaient
- reagrdaient
- regadraient
- regaradient
- regardaeint
- regardaiennt
- regardaientt
- regardaietn
- regardainet
- regarddaient
- regardiaent
- regarrdaient
- reggardaient
- regradaient
- rgeardaient
- rregardaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of regardaient - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "regardaient", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (16 here; floor ≥5).