respectait
\ʁɛs.pɛk.tɛ\
The verdict
“respectait” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,112. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,112
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de respecter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-respectait · respectait · French
respectait · rank #29,112 · 15 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,112
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH requiem
Nearest frequency peer: requiem (-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 « respectait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- repeindre
repeindre
70,892 corpus weight
- reproduite
reproduite
70,891 corpus weight
- requiem
requiem
70,890 corpus weight
- respectait
respectait
70,889 corpus weight
- respirent
respirent
70,888 corpus weight
- ressemblera
ressemblera
70,887 corpus weight
What this shows « respectait » 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 | respectait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɛs.pɛk.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #29,112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « respectait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around respectait (IPA \ʁɛs.pɛk.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #29,112 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de respecter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for respectait, with forms such as "erspectait", "repsectait", and "resepctait". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "respectif", "respectent", "respectant", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 respectait, spelled R-E-S-P-E-C-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de respecter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how respectait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Donc, bien des sueurs, entre Couches et La-Ville-aux-Fayes, coulaient pour Rigou, que chacun respectait, tandis que le travail chèrement payé par le général, le seul qui jetât de l’argent dans le pays, lui valait des malédictions et la haine vouée aux riches.
De ce point de vue, l’administration respectait les convenances et ce n’est que bien plus tard que, par la force des choses, cette dernière pudeur disparut et qu’on enterra pêle-mêle, les uns sur les autres, hommes et femmes, sans souci de la décence.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erspectait
- repsectait
- resepctait
- respcetait
- respecatit
- respecctait
- respectaitt
- respectati
- respectiat
- respecttait
- respetcait
- resppectait
- resspectait
- rrespectait
- rsepectait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of respectait - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).