Which to use
“quittaient” and “quittait” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #40,947
- “quittaient” frequency rank
- #19,641
- “quittait” frequency rank
- 60588
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | quittaient | quittait |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe quitter. | Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe quitter. |
Same sound, different letters: quittaient vs quittait
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. quittaient runs 10 letters (CVVCCVVVCC) against quittait's 8 (CVVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - quittaient and quittait
This is the hard kind. quittaient and quittait are pronounced identically (\ki.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 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 60588, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
quittaient is recorded at frequency rank #40,947, classified as averb, pronounced \ki.tɛ\. quittait is at rank #19,641, tagged as averb, pronounced \ki.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 60588, this pair ranks #96,848 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of quittaient vs quittait
Shared letters: aiqtu. Private to "quittaient": en. Private to "quittait": -.
"quittaient" · 10 letters · shape CVVCCVVVCC · "quittait" · 8 letters · shape CVVCCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- quittaient ← qiuttaient · qquittaient · quitaient · quitatient · quittaeint · quittaiennt · quittaientt · quittaietn
- quittait ← qiuttait · qquittait · quitait · quitatit · quittaitt · quittati · quittiat · qutitait
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "quittaient" and "quittait" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "quittaient" or "quittait" show up more?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "quittaient" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "quittait" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #96,848 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "quittaient" and "quittait" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "quittaient vs quittèrent". 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 #96,848 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.