attrapait
\a.tʁa.pɛ\
The verdict
“attrapait” is uncommon French (frequency #85,487 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,487
- 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 attraper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-attrapait · attrapait · French
attrapait · rank #85,487 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,487
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Auer
Nearest frequency peer: Auer (+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 « attrapait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- asses
asses
14,518 corpus weight
- assignent
assignent
14,517 corpus weight
- attendraient
attendraient
14,516 corpus weight
- attrapait
attrapait
14,514 corpus weight
- Auer
Auer
14,513 corpus weight
- Auvray
Auvray
14,511 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « attrapait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | attrapait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.tʁa.pɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #85,487 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « attrapait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
attrapait is uncommon French at frequency #85,487 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.tʁa.pɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe attraper.".
attrapait doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 attrapait, spelled A-T-T-R-A-P-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe attraper.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how attrapait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Celui qui était derrière, il attrapait la morue, il la déboëttait, et il lovait ses lignes en même temps.
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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