went
\ˈwɛnt\
The verdict
“went” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,529. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,529
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prétérit de go.
Corpus desk
Index FR-went · went · French
went · rank #46,529 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,529
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH waste
Nearest frequency peer: waste (-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 « went »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- volumineuse
volumineuse
53,477 corpus weight
- vor
vor
53,476 corpus weight
- Waldorf
Waldorf
53,474 corpus weight
- waste
waste
53,473 corpus weight
- went
went
53,472 corpus weight
- Yahia
Yahia
53,466 corpus weight
What this shows « went » 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 | went |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈwɛnt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #46,529 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « went »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around went (IPA \ˈwɛnt\), averb. Corpus frequency is #46,529 among 549 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prétérit de go.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for went, with forms such as "ewnt", "wennt", and "wentt". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "win", "Wes", "won", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is went, spelled W-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Prétérit de go.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ewnt
- wennt
- wentt
- wetn
- wnet
- wwent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of went - 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
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).