agitaient
\a.ʒi.tɛ\
The verdict
“agitaient” is uncommon French (frequency #66,473 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,473
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe agiter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-agitaient · agitaient · French
agitaient · rank #66,473 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,473
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH agiront
Nearest frequency peer: agiront (-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 « agitaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- additionnée
additionnée
33,531 corpus weight
- affrètement
affrètement
33,530 corpus weight
- agiront
agiront
33,529 corpus weight
- agitaient
agitaient
33,528 corpus weight
- aima
aima
33,527 corpus weight
- akron
akron
33,526 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « agitaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agitaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ʒi.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,473 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « agitaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
agitaient is uncommon French at frequency #66,473 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.ʒi.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe agiter.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for agitaient, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is agitaient, spelled A-G-I-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe agiter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how agitaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pendant que j’aboyais et que je lobbyais pour eux, ils s’avouaient vaincus, agitaient le drapeau blanc, courbaient l’échine… et allaient se nicotiniser en catimini.
Mais ici, il y avait aussi une crème à bien faire pénétrer dans la peau pour qu’elle reste souple, des tours de lit à installer pour les patients qui s’agitaient et se débattaient, et des escarres à prévenir chez ceux qui ne bougeaient pas.
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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