risquait
\ʁis.kɛ\
The verdict
“risquait” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,552. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,552
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de risquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-risquait · risquait · French
risquait · rank #17,552 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,552
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH réalisez
Nearest frequency peer: réalisez (+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 « risquait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ressentent
ressentent
82,452 corpus weight
- revenez
revenez
82,451 corpus weight
- risquait
risquait
82,449 corpus weight
- réalisez
réalisez
82,448 corpus weight
- réguler
réguler
82,447 corpus weight
- révélant
révélant
82,446 corpus weight
What this shows « risquait » 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 | risquait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁis.kɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,552 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « risquait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around risquait (IPA \ʁis.kɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #17,552 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de risquer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for risquait, with forms such as "irsquait", "riqsuait", and "risqauit". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "risquent", "risquant", "risquerait", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 risquait, spelled R-I-S-Q-U-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de risquer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how risquait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai donc eu une idée géniale : plutôt que de préparer une explosion qui risquait de mal tourner pour moi, j’allais mener à bien la rupture de voie en déclissant et en détirefonnant un couple de rails.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- irsquait
- riqsuait
- risqauit
- risqquait
- risquaitt
- risquati
- risquiat
- rissquait
- risuqait
- rrisquait
- rsiquait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of risquait - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "risquait", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).