séparaient
\se.pa.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“séparaient” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,217. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,217
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de séparer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-separaient · séparaient · French
séparaient · rank #48,217 · 15 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,217
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH suzeraineté
Nearest frequency peer: suzeraineté (-2 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 « séparaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- subissaient
subissaient
51,788 corpus weight
- superposent
superposent
51,787 corpus weight
- suzeraineté
suzeraineté
51,786 corpus weight
- séparaient
séparaient
51,784 corpus weight
- Tarik
Tarik
51,781 corpus weight
- Tchaïkovski
Tchaïkovski
51,780 corpus weight
What this shows « séparaient » 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 | séparaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \se.pa.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #48,217 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « séparaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around séparaient (IPA \se.pa.ʁɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #48,217 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de séparer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for séparaient, with forms such as "separaient", "spéaraient", and "sséparaient". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "seraient", "séparent", "séparant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 séparaient, spelled S-É-P-A-R-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de séparer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how séparaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À gauche, les marquises des halles couvertes ouvraient leurs porches géants, aux vitrages enfumés, celle des grandes lignes, immense, où l’œil plongeait, et que les bâtiments de la poste et de la bouillotterie séparaient des autres, plus petites, celles d’Argenteuil, de Versailles et de la Ceinture ; tandis que le pont de l’Europe, à droite, coupait de so…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- separaient
- spéaraient
- sséparaient
- séapraient
- sépaarient
- séparaeint
- séparaiennt
- séparaientt
- séparaietn
- séparainet
- sépariaent
- séparraient
- sépparaient
- sépraaient
- ésparaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of séparaient - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).