animaient
\a.ni.mɛ\
The verdict
“animaient” is uncommon French (frequency #81,758 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,758
- 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 animer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-animaient · animaient · French
animaient · rank #81,758 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,758
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH animiste
Nearest frequency peer: animiste (+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 « animaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- amerrissage
amerrissage
18,246 corpus weight
- amnesia
amnesia
18,245 corpus weight
- animaient
animaient
18,243 corpus weight
- animiste
animiste
18,242 corpus weight
- anticapital…
anticapitalistes
18,241 corpus weight
- aon
aon
18,240 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « animaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | animaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ni.mɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,758 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « animaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
animaient is uncommon French at frequency #81,758 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.ni.mɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe animer.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for animaient, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is animaient, spelled A-N-I-M-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe animer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how animaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce fut à cette période que le jeune Morange envisagea, le plus sérieusement du monde, de se porter volontaire pour l’armée. Des sentiments contradictoires l’animaient alors, des rêves de gloire, mêlés à un désir obsessionnel de vengeance.
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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