autorisaient

\ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zɛ\

/\ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zɛ\/ verb

The verdict

“autorisaient” is uncommon French (frequency #82,691 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#82,691
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 autoriser.

Corpus desk

Index FR-autorisaient · autorisaient · French

autorisaient · rank #82,691 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #82,691
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-7 7 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH auditer

Nearest frequency peer: auditer (-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 « autorisaient »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « autorisaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for autorisaient
PropertyValue
Headwordautorisaient
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zɛ\
Letters12
Frequency rank#82,691
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « autorisaient » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).autorisaienttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « auditer » (#82,690), « auvents » (#82,692), « avérant » (#82,693). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « autorisaient » est au #82,691. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

autorisaient is uncommon French at frequency #82,691 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe autoriser.".

autorisaient doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is autorisaient, spelled A-U-T-O-R-I-S-A-I-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe autoriser.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how autorisaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Cependant elle traitait Calyste en femme qui se croyait des droits sur lui ; ses projets l’autorisaient à le surveiller ; non qu’elle apportât des idées étroites en matière de galanterie, elle avait l’indulgence des vieilles femmes de l’ancien régime ; mais elle avait en horreur les mœurs révolutionnaires.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "autorisaient"?
"autorisaient" is spelled A-U-T-O-R-I-S-A-I-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zɛ\.
What does "autorisaient" mean?
As a verb, "autorisaient" means: Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe autoriser.
How do you pronounce "autorisaient"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "autorisaient" is \ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "autorisaient", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list