riait
\ʁi.jɛ\
The verdict
“riait” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,602. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,602
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de rire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-riait · riait · French
riait · rank #27,602 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,602
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH revus
Nearest frequency peer: revus (-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 « riait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- revenues
revenues
72,401 corpus weight
- revus
revus
72,400 corpus weight
- riait
riait
72,399 corpus weight
- Ridley
Ridley
72,398 corpus weight
- rodin
rodin
72,397 corpus weight
- routeur
routeur
72,396 corpus weight
What this shows « riait » 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 | riait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁi.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #27,602 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « riait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around riait (IPA \ʁi.jɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #27,602 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de rire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for riait, with forms such as "raiit", "riaitt", and "riati". 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, "riot", "rift", "right", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 riait, spelled R-I-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de rire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how riait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La fille qui riait au matin A fait bleuir les prés, les jardins, Les routes, les ramilles, les chaumes, A saphirisé tout le royaume Avec son regard en fleur de lin.
Le parlement de Paris, les parlements de province étaient chargés de cette immense perruque à laquelle le président Diderot ne pouvait s’accoutumer ; et M. de Brosses lui-même qui se riait si bien dans sa correspondance des vastissimes perruques carrées sous lesquelles étaient cachés le doge de Gênes et ses sénateurs, s’était vu forcé de s’en affubler com…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- raiit
- riaitt
- riati
- riiat
- rriait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of riait - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).