achetèrent
\a.ʃə.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“achetèrent” is uncommon French (frequency #83,554 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,554
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple du verbe acheter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-acheterent · achetèrent · French
achetèrent · rank #83,554 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,554
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH accuserait
Nearest frequency peer: accuserait (-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 « achetèrent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- accueillire…
accueillirent
16,450 corpus weight
- acculer
acculer
16,449 corpus weight
- accuserait
accuserait
16,448 corpus weight
- achetèrent
achetèrent
16,447 corpus weight
- acido
acido
16,446 corpus weight
- actant
actant
16,445 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « achetèrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | achetèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ʃə.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #83,554 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « achetèrent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
achetèrent is uncommon French at frequency #83,554 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.ʃə.tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple du verbe acheter.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for achetèrent, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 achetèrent, spelled A-C-H-E-T-È-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple du verbe acheter.
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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