respirait
\ʁɛs.pi.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“respirait” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,132. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,132
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 13
- 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 respirer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-respirait · respirait · French
respirait · rank #36,132 · 13 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,132
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rentiers
Nearest frequency peer: rentiers (-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 « respirait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- remplissait
remplissait
63,872 corpus weight
- rendormir
rendormir
63,871 corpus weight
- rentiers
rentiers
63,870 corpus weight
- respirait
respirait
63,869 corpus weight
- restauratio…
restaurations
63,868 corpus weight
- retrancher
retrancher
63,866 corpus weight
What this shows « respirait » 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 | respirait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɛs.pi.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #36,132 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « respirait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around respirait (IPA \ʁɛs.pi.ʁɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #36,132 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de respirer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for respirait, with forms such as "erspirait", "repsirait", and "resiprait". 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, "retirait", "resterait", "respirent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is respirait, spelled R-E-S-P-I-R-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de respirer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how respirait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Dans l’établissement dans lequel j’étais, il y avait plein de problèmes d’aération. […] Les chloramines et les autres produits chimiques, on les respirait en permanence et le service de la Mairie de Paris n’intervenait pas assez rapidement », dénonce-t-elle.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erspirait
- repsirait
- resiprait
- respiarit
- respiraitt
- respirati
- respiriat
- respirrait
- resppirait
- respriait
- resspirait
- rrespirait
- rsepirait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of respirait - 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).