trouvais
\tʁu.vɛ\
The verdict
“trouvais” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,123. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,123
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de trouver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trouvais · trouvais · French
trouvais · rank #7,123 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,123
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH transaction
Nearest frequency peer: transaction (-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 « trouvais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- SVP
SVP
92,881 corpus weight
- thermique
thermique
92,880 corpus weight
- transaction
transaction
92,879 corpus weight
- trouvais
trouvais
92,878 corpus weight
- tubes
tubes
92,877 corpus weight
- und
und
92,876 corpus weight
What this shows « trouvais » 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 | trouvais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁu.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,123 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « trouvais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around trouvais (IPA \tʁu.vɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,123 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for trouvais, with forms such as "rtouvais", "toruvais", and "trouavis". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "trouvés", "trouvait", "trouvant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is trouvais, spelled T-R-O-U-V-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de trouver.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de trouver.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how trouvais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je trouvais ces concours un peu ringards, comico-désuets et puis hypermysogynes, aliénants.
Je vis bien qu’il fallait que je m’en mêlasse, moui qui, par hasard, me trouvais encore là.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtouvais
- toruvais
- trouavis
- trouvaiss
- trouvasi
- trouvias
- trouvvais
- trovuais
- trrouvais
- truovais
- ttrouvais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of trouvais - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "trouvais", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (11 here; floor ≥5).