utilisaient
\y.ti.li.zɛ\
The verdict
“utilisaient” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,032. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,032
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de utiliser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-utilisaient · utilisaient · French
utilisaient · rank #17,032 · 15 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,032
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH usager
Nearest frequency peer: usager (-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 « utilisaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tsunami
tsunami
82,972 corpus weight
- téléphoner
téléphoner
82,971 corpus weight
- usager
usager
82,970 corpus weight
- utilisaient
utilisaient
82,969 corpus weight
- Valois
Valois
82,968 corpus weight
- very
very
82,967 corpus weight
What this shows « utilisaient » 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 | utilisaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \y.ti.li.zɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #17,032 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « utilisaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around utilisaient (IPA \y.ti.li.zɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #17,032 among 456 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de utiliser.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for utilisaient, with forms such as "tuilisaient", "uitlisaient", and "utiilsaient". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "utilisant", "utilisent", "utilisait", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is utilisaient, spelled U-T-I-L-I-S-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de utiliser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how utilisaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les paysans n’utilisaient que fort peu d’engrais chimiques; ils fumaient leurs champs et purinaient leurs prairies, semaient parfois des cendres, de la scorie, de la chaux ou de la poudre d’os.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- tuilisaient
- uitlisaient
- utiilsaient
- utiliasient
- utilisaeint
- utilisaiennt
- utilisaientt
- utilisaietn
- utilisainet
- utilisiaent
- utilissaient
- utillisaient
- utilsiaient
- utliisaient
- uttilisaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of utilisaient - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).