régnait
\ʁe.ɲɛ\
The verdict
“régnait” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,673. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,673
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de régner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-regnait · régnait · French
régnait · rank #19,673 · 11 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,673
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH récurrents
Nearest frequency peer: récurrents (-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 « régnait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ruisseaux
ruisseaux
80,332 corpus weight
- Rupert
Rupert
80,331 corpus weight
- récurrents
récurrents
80,329 corpus weight
- régnait
régnait
80,328 corpus weight
- répondrai
répondrai
80,327 corpus weight
- répètent
répètent
80,326 corpus weight
What this shows « régnait » 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 | régnait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.ɲɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,673 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « régnait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around régnait (IPA \ʁe.ɲɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #19,673 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de régner.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for régnait, with forms such as "regnait", "rgénait", and "rrégnait". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "réunit", "rêvait", "renaît", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is régnait, spelled R-É-G-N-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de régner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how régnait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Partout le marbre blanc régnait. De la pierre marmoréenne émanait une douce clarté que les délicates nervures noires qui la parcouraient ne suffisaient pas à affaiblir.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- regnait
- rgénait
- rrégnait
- réganit
- réggnait
- régnaitt
- régnati
- régniat
- régnnait
- réngait
- érgnait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of régnait - 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 "régnait", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).