TABLE 3.
Characteristics of the words chosen from the parallel WIAT-spelling tasks.
| FR | Freq | NbPhon | NbLet | EN | Freq | NbPhon | NbLet |
| main | 684 | 2 | 4 | big | 2666 | 3 | 3 |
| gros | 757 | 3 | 4 | hand | 295 | 4 | 4 |
| plomb | 19 | 3 | 5 | careless | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| sautait | 7 | 4 | 7 | strength | 22 | 6 | 8 |
| grimpa | 1 | 5 | 6 | riding | 143 | 5 | 6 |
| plafond | 29 | 5 | 7 | climbed | 373 | 5 | 7 |
| suis | 855 | 3 | 4 | guess | 127 | 3 | 5 |
| excitation | 3 | 9 | 10 | right | 852 | 3 | 5 |
| mer | 521 | 3 | 3 | knew | 270 | 3 | 4 |
| dois | 117 | 3 | 4 | patients | 38 | 6 | 8 |
| soupçon | 3 | 5 | 7 | ceiling | 35 | 5 | 7 |
| aujourd’hui | 249 | 7 | 11 | couldn’t | NA | 5 | 8 |
| Mean (SD) | 271.54 (335.15) | 4.33 (2.02) | 6 (2.52) | Mean (SD) | 438.55 (778.25) | 4.42 (1.16) | 6.08 (1.83) |
EN, English word targets; Freq, English: Frequency per million (=number of occurrences of target word/number of all word occurrences in database × 1,000,000), French: Estimated frequency of Usage per million (U = number of occurrences of target word/number of all word occurrences in database × dispersion of the frequencies across readers × 1,000,000); NbPhon, number of phonemes; NbLet, number of letters; FR, French word targets. The indices given above were all taken from the Children’s word printed database for English (Masterson et al., 2010) and from the Manulex database for French (Lété et al., 2004).