restaient
\ʁɛs.tɛ\
The verdict
“restaient” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,135. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,135
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe rester.
Corpus desk
Index FR-restaient · restaient · French
restaient · rank #14,135 · 13 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,135
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH respiratoires
Nearest frequency peer: respiratoires (-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 « restaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- renouvelée
renouvelée
85,869 corpus weight
- requises
requises
85,868 corpus weight
- respiratoir…
respiratoires
85,867 corpus weight
- restaient
restaient
85,866 corpus weight
- retrouvaill…
retrouvailles
85,865 corpus weight
- rituels
rituels
85,864 corpus weight
What this shows « restaient » 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 | restaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɛs.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #14,135 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « restaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around restaient (IPA \ʁɛs.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,135 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe rester.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for restaient, with forms such as "erstaient", "resatient", and "resstaient". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "restent", "restant", "restait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is restaient, spelled R-E-S-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe rester.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how restaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les meurtrières pratiquées dans les merlons de pierre restaient démasquées dans leur partie inférieure et permettaient aux arbalétriers postés au dedans du parapet sur ce chemin de ronde de lancer des traits sur les assaillants.
Pendant qu’il parlait, Denise examinait Colomban et Geneviève. Ils étaient à table l’un près de l’autre ; mais ils y restaient bien tranquilles, sans une rougeur, sans un sourire.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erstaient
- resatient
- resstaient
- restaeint
- restaiennt
- restaientt
- restaietn
- restainet
- restiaent
- resttaient
- retsaient
- rrestaient
- rsetaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of restaient - 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).