trouvaient
\tʁu.vɛ\
The verdict
“trouvaient” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,569. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,569
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de trouver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trouvaient · trouvaient · French
trouvaient · rank #6,569 · 14 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,569
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH triomphe
Nearest frequency peer: triomphe (-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 « trouvaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- transactions
transactions
93,435 corpus weight
- treize
treize
93,434 corpus weight
- triomphe
triomphe
93,433 corpus weight
- trouvaient
trouvaient
93,432 corpus weight
- télécharger
télécharger
93,431 corpus weight
- variétés
variétés
93,430 corpus weight
What this shows « trouvaient » 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 | trouvaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁu.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #6,569 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « trouvaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around trouvaient (IPA \tʁu.vɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,569 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de trouver.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for trouvaient, with forms such as "rtouvaient", "toruvaient", and "trouavient". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "trouvent", "trouvait", "trouvant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is trouvaient, spelled T-R-O-U-V-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de trouver.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how trouvaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sache donc, l’Échalas, que ce que raconte la copine pourrait être pratiqué dès aujourd’hui, si les bourgeois y trouvaient profit : en effet le truc électrique pour désempuanter les ordures et le bouillon des égouts est trouvé depuis des années, — y a qu’à l’appliquer.
Pour donner, en effet, un digne apanage à son frère, Louis XI joignit au pays de Guyenne les judicatures du pays toulousain qui se trouvaient sur la rive gauche de la Garonne.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtouvaient
- toruvaient
- trouavient
- trouvaeint
- trouvaiennt
- trouvaientt
- trouvaietn
- trouvainet
- trouviaent
- trouvvaient
- trovuaient
- trrouvaient
- truovaient
- ttrouvaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of trouvaient - 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).