Which to use
“encourageait” is a verb and “encourageant” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #41,268
- “encourageait” frequency rank
- #15,367
- “encourageant” frequency rank
- 56635
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | encourageait | encourageant |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de encourager. | Qui encourage. |
Letter map: encourageait vs encourageant
Shared letters muted; letters that set encourageait and encourageant apart highlighted. Shared run: 11.
Role in the sentence - encourageait and encourageant
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: encourageait is averb and encourageantanadjective. On the page they differ by a single letter - i in “encourageait” becomes n in “encourageant”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 56635, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
encourageait is recorded at frequency rank #41,268, classified as averb, pronounced \ɑ̃.ku.ʁa.ʒɛ\. encourageant is at rank #15,367, tagged as anadj.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 56635, this pair ranks #119,873 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of encourageait vs encourageant
Shared letters: acegnortu. Private to "encourageait": i. Private to "encourageant": -.
"encourageait" · 12 letters · shape VCCVVCVCVVVC · "encourageant" · 12 letters · shape VCCVVCVCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- encourageait ← ecnourageait · enccourageait · encoruageait · encouargeait · encouraegait · encouragaeit · encourageaitt · encourageati
- encourageant ← ecnourageant · enccourageant · encoruageant · encouargeant · encouraegant · encouragaent · encourageannt · encourageantt
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "encourageait" for "encourageant" ever safe?
Which is more common, "encourageait" or "encourageant"?
What to do next
Pair "encourageait" vs "encourageant" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.
- Full dictionary entry for "encourageait" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "encourageant" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #119,873 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "encourageait" and "encourageant" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "encourageait vs encourageante". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #119,873 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.