allumait
\a.ly.mɛ\
The verdict
“allumait” is uncommon French (frequency #60,524 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,524
- 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 allumer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-allumait · allumait · French
allumait · rank #60,524 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,524
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alcalins
Nearest frequency peer: alcalins (-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 « allumait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- affleuremen…
affleurements
39,480 corpus weight
- agrippine
agrippine
39,479 corpus weight
- alcalins
alcalins
39,478 corpus weight
- allumait
allumait
39,477 corpus weight
- allumeuse
allumeuse
39,476 corpus weight
- alphabets
alphabets
39,474 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « allumait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | allumait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ly.mɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,524 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « allumait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
allumait is uncommon French at frequency #60,524 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.ly.mɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe allumer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for allumait in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is allumait, spelled A-L-L-U-M-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe allumer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how allumait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cinq fauteuils en rotin vert-prairie et une table en teck invitaient à ce spectacle démesuré ; surtout lorsque la nuit allumait de ses scintillements la rivière Hudson, les buildings et la statue de la Liberté.
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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