semblait
\sɑ̃.blɛ\
The verdict
“semblait” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,898. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,898
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de sembler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-semblait · semblait · French
semblait · rank #2,898 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,898
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sec
Nearest frequency peer: sec (-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 « semblait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- reprend
reprend
97,106 corpus weight
- royale
royale
97,105 corpus weight
- sec
sec
97,104 corpus weight
- semblait
semblait
97,103 corpus weight
- sondage
sondage
97,102 corpus weight
- Standard
Standard
97,101 corpus weight
What this shows « semblait » 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 | semblait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.blɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,898 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « semblait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around semblait (IPA \sɑ̃.blɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #2,898 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de sembler.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for semblait, with forms such as "esmblait", "sebmlait", and "sembalit". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "semblent", "semblant", "semblants", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is semblait, spelled S-E-M-B-L-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de sembler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how semblait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il était moins gai que jadis, une inquiétude secrète semblait peser sur lui continuellement et il passait son temps de façon pitoyable à ramasser les bouts de cigares, étant devenu mégotier…
Et puis, à d’autres moments, le sombre sentiment semblait s’être évaporé. Comme ces rivières qui s’asséchaient durant l’hiver, ne laissant entrevoir que la pierraille stérile des ravines. Mais, ces rivières-là, elles continuaient de vivre sous terre, comme ces veines bleutées qui couraient sous la peau. Et, un jour, quand elles le décidaient, elles ressor…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esmblait
- sebmlait
- sembalit
- sembblait
- semblaitt
- semblati
- sembliat
- sembllait
- semlbait
- semmblait
- smeblait
- ssemblait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of semblait - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).