rencontraient
\ʁɑ̃.kɔ̃.tʁɛ\
The verdict
“rencontraient” has 20 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,278. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,278
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rencontrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rencontraient · rencontraient · French
rencontraient · rank #45,278 · 20 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,278
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH remué
Nearest frequency peer: remué (-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 « rencontraient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- relatent
relatent
54,726 corpus weight
- relevez
relevez
54,725 corpus weight
- remué
remué
54,724 corpus weight
- rencontraie…
rencontraient
54,723 corpus weight
- rendrais
rendrais
54,722 corpus weight
- Resnais
Resnais
54,720 corpus weight
What this shows « rencontraient » 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 | rencontraient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɑ̃.kɔ̃.tʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #45,278 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rencontraient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around rencontraient (IPA \ʁɑ̃.kɔ̃.tʁɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #45,278 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rencontrer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for rencontraient, with forms such as "erncontraient", "recnontraient", and "renccontraient". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "rencontrent", "rencontrant", "rencontrait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is rencontraient, spelled R-E-N-C-O-N-T-R-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rencontrer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rencontraient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Depuis ce temps, l’idée de cet enfant qui poussait, qui allait leur prendre pour toujours la maison et la terre, les hanta ; et ils ne rencontraient plus la jeune sœur, sans que leur regard, tout de suite, se portât sur son ventre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erncontraient
- recnontraient
- renccontraient
- rencnotraient
- renconntraient
- renconrtaient
- rencontarient
- rencontraeint
- rencontraiennt
- rencontraientt
- rencontraietn
- rencontrainet
- rencontriaent
- rencontrraient
- renconttraient
- rencotnraient
- renncontraient
- renocntraient
- rnecontraient
- rrencontraient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rencontraient - 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
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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).