accueillaient
\a.kœ.jɛ\
The verdict
“accueillaient” is uncommon French (frequency #57,724 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,724
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de accueillir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-accueillaient · accueillaient · French
accueillaient · rank #57,724 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,724
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Abyssinie
Nearest frequency peer: Abyssinie (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « accueillaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Abkhazie
Abkhazie
42,280 corpus weight
- abolitionni…
abolitionniste
42,279 corpus weight
- Abyssinie
Abyssinie
42,278 corpus weight
- accueillaie…
accueillaient
42,277 corpus weight
- acronymes
acronymes
42,276 corpus weight
- adorno
adorno
42,274 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « accueillaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accueillaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.kœ.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #57,724 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « accueillaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
accueillaient is uncommon French at frequency #57,724 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.kœ.jɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de accueillir.".
accueillaient doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is accueillaient, spelled A-C-C-U-E-I-L-L-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de accueillir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how accueillaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au début des années 1970, les évêques de France ne pouvaient que constater le nombre grandissant des entrées au séminaire d’Écône, alors que leurs séminaires accueillaient de moins en moins de candidats.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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