risquait

\ʁis.kɛ\

/\ʁis.kɛ\/ verb

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

corpus weight

What this shows « risquait » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

risquait vs risquent
75% similar
risquait vs risquant
88% similar
risquait vs risquerait
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for risquait
PropertyValue
Headwordrisquait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʁis.kɛ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#17,552
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « risquait »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).risquaitse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « réalisez » (#17,553), « revenez » (#17,550), « réguler » (#17,554). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « risquait » est au #17,552. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de risquer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how risquait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

irsquait2riqsuait2risqauit2risqquait1risquaitt1risquati2risquiat2rissquait1
Edit distance from "risquait"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "risquait"?
"risquait" is spelled R-I-S-Q-U-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁis.kɛ\.
What does "risquait" mean?
As a verb, "risquait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de risquer.
What words are commonly confused with "risquait"?
"risquait" is commonly confused with "risquent", "risquant", "risquerait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "risquait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "risquait" is \ʁis.kɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "risquait" come from?
"risquait" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list