alignait
\a.li.ɲɛ\
The verdict
“alignait” is uncommon French (frequency #88,299 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,299
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe aligner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alignait · alignait · French
alignait · rank #88,299 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,299
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aliyah
Nearest frequency peer: aliyah (+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 « alignait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ajoncs
ajoncs
11,705 corpus weight
- alignait
alignait
11,702 corpus weight
- aliyah
aliyah
11,701 corpus weight
- allitération
allitération
11,700 corpus weight
- allogènes
allogènes
11,699 corpus weight
- almohades
almohades
11,698 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alignait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alignait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.li.ɲɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,299 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alignait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alignait is uncommon French at frequency #88,299 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.li.ɲɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe aligner.".
Zero misspellings are on record for alignait in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is alignait, spelled A-L-I-G-N-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe aligner.
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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