attiraient
\a.ti.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“attiraient” is uncommon French (frequency #62,791 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,791
- 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 attirer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-attiraient · attiraient · French
attiraient · rank #62,791 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,791
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH atterrés
Nearest frequency peer: atterrés (-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 « attiraient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- astruc
astruc
37,213 corpus weight
- Atacama
Atacama
37,212 corpus weight
- atterrés
atterrés
37,211 corpus weight
- attiraient
attiraient
37,210 corpus weight
- attirerait
attirerait
37,209 corpus weight
- Auerbach
Auerbach
37,208 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « attiraient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | attiraient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ti.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #62,791 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « attiraient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
attiraient is uncommon French at frequency #62,791 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.ti.ʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe attirer.".
attiraient doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 attiraient, spelled A-T-T-I-R-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe attirer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how attiraient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et il s’en tenait à cette histoire, dont les coins obscurs l’attiraient, l’intéressaient, sans qu’il cherchât à les éclaircir.
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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