Which to use
“perdais” and “perdait” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #37,475
- “perdais” frequency rank
- #15,713
- “perdait” frequency rank
- 53188
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | perdais | perdait |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de perdre. | Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de perdre. |
Same sound, different letters: perdais vs perdait
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. perdais and perdait follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Same sound, different spelling - perdais / perdait
This is the hard kind. perdais and perdait are pronounced identically (\pɛʁ.dɛ\) 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 “perdais” becomes t in “perdait”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 53188, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
perdais is recorded at frequency rank #37,475, classified as averb, pronounced \pɛʁ.dɛ\. perdait is at rank #15,713, tagged as averb, pronounced \pɛʁ.dɛ\.
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 53188, this pair ranks #142,488 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of perdais vs perdait
Shared letters: adeipr. Private to "perdais": s. Private to "perdait": t.
"perdais" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC · "perdait" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "perdais" for "perdait" ever safe?
Frequency check: "perdais" vs "perdait" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
"perdais" and "perdait" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "perdais" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "perdait" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #142,488 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "perdais" and "perdait" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "perdais vs perdrai". 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 #142,488 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.