séparait
\se.pa.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“séparait” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,614. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,614
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de séparer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-separait · séparait · French
séparait · rank #32,614 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,614
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH séquestre
Nearest frequency peer: séquestre (+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 « séparait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- supreme
supreme
67,391 corpus weight
- survolé
survolé
67,390 corpus weight
- synergies
synergies
67,389 corpus weight
- séparait
séparait
67,387 corpus weight
- séquestre
séquestre
67,386 corpus weight
- tardent
tardent
67,384 corpus weight
What this shows « séparait » 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 | séparait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \se.pa.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,614 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « séparait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around séparait (IPA \se.pa.ʁɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #32,614 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de séparer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for séparait, with forms such as "separait", "spéarait", and "sséparait". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "serait", "serrait", "séparent", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is séparait, spelled S-É-P-A-R-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de séparer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how séparait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Yoran, un peu perdu dans ses réflexions, mésestima la distance qui séparait sa main de la gourde d’eau et la renversa d’un geste maladroit.
Mais la situation de "Bois" entre un substantif et un qualificatif qu’il séparait arbitrairement lui était une épine dans la chair.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- separait
- spéarait
- sséparait
- séaprait
- sépaarit
- séparaitt
- séparati
- sépariat
- séparrait
- sépparait
- sépraait
- ésparait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of séparait - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).