risquaient
\ʁis.kɛ\
The verdict
“risquaient” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,515. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,515
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de risquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-risquaient · risquaient · French
risquaient · rank #38,515 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,515
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH RnB
Nearest frequency peer: RnB (+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 « risquaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- responsabil…
responsabiliser
61,489 corpus weight
- reus
reus
61,488 corpus weight
- risquaient
risquaient
61,486 corpus weight
- RnB
RnB
61,485 corpus weight
- rona
rona
61,484 corpus weight
- rough
rough
61,483 corpus weight
What this shows « risquaient » 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 | risquaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁis.kɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #38,515 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « risquaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around risquaient (IPA \ʁis.kɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #38,515 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de risquer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for risquaient, with forms such as "irsquaient", "riqsuaient", and "risqauient". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "risquent", "risquait", "risquant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is risquaient, spelled R-I-S-Q-U-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de risquer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how risquaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sous le régime soviétique, s’ils n’étaient pas regroupés en artels enregistrés, les koustars risquaient d’être persécutés par les autorités.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- irsquaient
- riqsuaient
- risqauient
- risqquaient
- risquaeint
- risquaiennt
- risquaientt
- risquaietn
- risquainet
- risquiaent
- rissquaient
- risuqaient
- rrisquaient
- rsiquaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of risquaient - 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).