semblaient
\sɑ̃.blɛ\
The verdict
“semblaient” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,483. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,483
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de sembler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-semblaient · semblaient · French
semblaient · rank #11,483 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,483
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH réunissant
Nearest frequency peer: réunissant (-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 « semblaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- routiers
routiers
88,522 corpus weight
- réunissant
réunissant
88,519 corpus weight
- semblaient
semblaient
88,518 corpus weight
- series
series
88,517 corpus weight
- serions
serions
88,516 corpus weight
- sincères
sincères
88,515 corpus weight
What this shows « semblaient » 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 | semblaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.blɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #11,483 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « semblaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around semblaient (IPA \sɑ̃.blɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #11,483 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de sembler.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for semblaient, with forms such as "esmblaient", "sebmlaient", and "sembalient". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "semblent", "semblait", "semblant", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is semblaient, spelled S-E-M-B-L-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de sembler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how semblaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La conversation fut d’abord assez triste, car l’hôte et ses enfants ne répondaient que par oui et par non, et semblaient bouder ; mais Gaspard, qui avait de l’esprit, s’adressa à la fille de la maison, lui dit qu’elle était jolie, et, pour mieux la muguetter, se plaça vis-à-vis d’elle, derrière le père, assis lui-même, entre ses deux fils, qui riaient d’u…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esmblaient
- sebmlaient
- sembalient
- sembblaient
- semblaeint
- semblaiennt
- semblaientt
- semblaietn
- semblainet
- sembliaent
- sembllaient
- semlbaient
- semmblaient
- smeblaient
- ssemblaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of semblaient - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).