rendaient

\ʁɑ̃.dɛ\

/\ʁɑ̃.dɛ\/ verb

The verdict

“rendaient” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,856. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#18,856
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
14
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de rendre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-rendaient · rendaient · French

rendaient · rank #18,856 · 13 variants · 14 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #18,856
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH remboursés

Nearest frequency peer: remboursés (-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 « rendaient »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « rendaient » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

rendaient vs rendent
78% similar
rendaient vs rendant
78% similar
rendaient vs rendait
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for rendaient
PropertyValue
Headwordrendaient
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʁɑ̃.dɛ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#18,856
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rendaient »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).rendaientse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « remboursés » (#18,855), « renommé » (#18,857), « remboursements » (#18,854). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « rendaient » est au #18,856. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around rendaient (IPA \ʁɑ̃.dɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #18,856 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de rendre.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for rendaient, with forms such as "erndaient", "rednaient", and "renadient". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "rendent", "rendant", "rendait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is rendaient, spelled R-E-N-D-A-I-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de rendre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how rendaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. J’avais acheté une vieille 4L dont les cardans exténués rendaient d’inquiétants sons de castagnettes et je roulais des journées entières sur des routes où la mort guettait à chaque virage.
  2. Trouville, dès cinq heures envahissait sa noble voisine, mais Deauville ne voulait rien connaître de l’autre, où les Deauvillois ne se rendaient que pour rejoindre des amis qui n’avaient pu trouver asile dans la cité nouvelle.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • erndaient
  • rednaient
  • renadient
  • rendaeint
  • rendaiennt
  • rendaientt
  • rendaietn
  • rendainet
  • renddaient
  • rendiaent
  • renndaient
  • rnedaient
  • rrendaient

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rendaient - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

erndaient2rednaient2renadient2rendaeint2rendaiennt1rendaientt1rendaietn2rendainet2
Edit distance from "rendaient"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rendaient"?
"rendaient" is spelled R-E-N-D-A-I-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁɑ̃.dɛ\.
What does "rendaient" mean?
As a verb, "rendaient" means: Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de rendre.
What words are commonly confused with "rendaient"?
"rendaient" is commonly confused with "rendent", "rendant", "rendait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "rendaient"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rendaient" is \ʁɑ̃.dɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rendaient" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rendaient", not the corpus desk frequency band.

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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list