baignaient
\be.ɲɛ\
The verdict
“baignaient” is uncommon French (frequency #80,899 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,899
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe baigner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baignaient · baignaient · French
baignaient · rank #80,899 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,899
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bahar
Nearest frequency peer: bahar (-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 « baignaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aérage
aérage
19,106 corpus weight
- badia
badia
19,104 corpus weight
- bahar
bahar
19,103 corpus weight
- baignaient
baignaient
19,102 corpus weight
- balbutiant
balbutiant
19,100 corpus weight
- ballants
ballants
19,099 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « baignaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baignaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \be.ɲɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #80,899 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « baignaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
baignaient is uncommon French at frequency #80,899 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \be.ɲɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe baigner.".
Zero misspellings are on record for baignaient in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is baignaient, spelled B-A-I-G-N-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe baigner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how baignaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ensuite, il avait arpenté le hameau de long en large, mais n’avait plus trouvé personne à occire, seuls quelques cadavres épars qui baignaient la poussière en se vidant.
Le métro à l’époque avait une odeur pénétrante de bois brûlé et d’aisselles en sueur, et les faibles néons baignaient les wagons d’une lueur souterraine, aigue-marine.
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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