applaudissaient
\a.plo.di.sɛ\
The verdict
“applaudissaient” is uncommon French (frequency #87,327 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,327
- 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 de applaudir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-applaudissaient · applaudissaient · French
applaudissaient · rank #87,327 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,327
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Aphatie
Nearest frequency peer: Aphatie (-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 « applaudissaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- antiqua
antiqua
12,677 corpus weight
- anémomètre
anémomètre
12,676 corpus weight
- Aphatie
Aphatie
12,675 corpus weight
- applaudissa…
applaudissaient
12,674 corpus weight
- apporteur
apporteur
12,673 corpus weight
- aquariophil…
aquariophilie
12,672 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « applaudissaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | applaudissaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.plo.di.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #87,327 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « applaudissaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
applaudissaient is uncommon French at frequency #87,327 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.plo.di.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de applaudir.".
applaudissaient has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is applaudissaient, spelled A-P-P-L-A-U-D-I-S-S-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de applaudir.
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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