Which to use
“foutais” and “foutait” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #28,175
- “foutais” frequency rank
- #22,275
- “foutait” frequency rank
- 50450
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | foutais | foutait |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de foutre. | Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de foutre. |
Same sound, different letters: foutais vs foutait
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. foutais and foutait follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVVCVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Ear matches; page differs - foutais and foutait
This is the hard kind. foutais and foutait are pronounced identically (\fu.tɛ\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by a single letter - s in “foutais” becomes t in “foutait”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50450, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
foutais is recorded at frequency rank #28,175, classified as averb, pronounced \fu.tɛ\. foutait is at rank #22,275, tagged as averb, pronounced \fu.tɛ\.
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 50450, this pair ranks #162,528 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of foutais vs foutait
Shared letters: afiotu. Private to "foutais": s. Private to "foutait": -.
"foutais" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVVC · "foutait" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "foutais" and "foutait" mean the same thing in a sentence?
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After this comparison
"foutais" and "foutait" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "foutais" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "foutait" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #162,528 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "foutais" and "foutait" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "fortis vs foutais". 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 #162,528 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.