rêvait
\ʁɛ.vɛ\
The verdict
“rêvait” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,315. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,315
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rêver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-revait · rêvait · French
rêvait · rank #18,315 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,315
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH régence
Nearest frequency peer: régence (-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 « rêvait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- risquez
risquez
81,689 corpus weight
- régence
régence
81,687 corpus weight
- rêvait
rêvait
81,686 corpus weight
- sav
sav
81,685 corpus weight
- save
save
81,684 corpus weight
- scénaristes
scénaristes
81,683 corpus weight
What this shows « rêvait » 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 | rêvait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɛ.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,315 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rêvait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around rêvait (IPA \ʁɛ.vɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #18,315 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rêver.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for rêvait, with forms such as "revait", "rrêvait", and "rvêait". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "revêt", "riait", "revit", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is rêvait, spelled R-Ê-V-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rêver.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rêvait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La Suisse rêvait en silence d’une neutralité universelle, d’un monde pacifié, suissifié, dans lequel tous les soldats se seraient contentés comme les siens de couvrir la frontière en attendant l’ennemi de pied ferme sans jamais l’aller chercher, de quoi garantir une paix armée propre à conduire un jour au désarmement général à force d’inutile vigilance.
Passionné par l’histoire de l’art depuis ses plus jeunes années, Maximilien Fortier se rêvait égyptologue ou commissaire-priseur.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- revait
- rrêvait
- rvêait
- rêavit
- rêvaitt
- rêvati
- rêviat
- rêvvait
- êrvait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rêvait - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).