regardais
\ʁə.ɡaʁ.dɛ\
The verdict
“regardais” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,221. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,221
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de regarder.
Corpus desk
Index FR-regardais · regardais · French
regardais · rank #10,221 · 13 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,221
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH refroidisseme…
Nearest frequency peer: refroidissement (-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 « regardais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- quais
quais
89,784 corpus weight
- rapportent
rapportent
89,783 corpus weight
- RDC
RDC
89,782 corpus weight
- refroidisse…
refroidissement
89,781 corpus weight
- regardais
regardais
89,780 corpus weight
- relier
relier
89,779 corpus weight
What this shows « regardais » 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 | regardais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.ɡaʁ.dɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #10,221 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « regardais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around regardais (IPA \ʁə.ɡaʁ.dɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,221 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for regardais, with forms such as "ergardais", "reagrdais", and "regadrais". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "regards", "regardés", "regardant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 regardais, spelled R-E-G-A-R-D-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de regarder.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de regarder.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how regardais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je me promenais dans cette ville si chère à ses habitants, j’allais du Rialto au grand canal, du quai des Esclavons au Lido, je revenais à sa cathédrale, si originalement sublime ; je regardais les fenêtres de la Casa Doro, dont chacune a des ornements différents ; je contemplais ces vieux palais si riches de marbre, enfin toutes ces merveilles avec lesqu…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ergardais
- reagrdais
- regadrais
- regaradis
- regardaiss
- regardasi
- regarddais
- regardias
- regarrdais
- reggardais
- regradais
- rgeardais
- rregardais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of regardais - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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).