baissaient
\bɛ.sɛ\
The verdict
“baissaient” is uncommon French (frequency #84,547 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,547
- 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 baisser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baissaient · baissaient · French
baissaient · rank #84,547 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,547
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bagnard
Nearest frequency peer: bagnard (-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 « baissaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- baccalauréa…
baccalauréats
15,457 corpus weight
- baclofène
baclofène
15,456 corpus weight
- bagnard
bagnard
15,455 corpus weight
- baissaient
baissaient
15,454 corpus weight
- baissons
baissons
15,453 corpus weight
- balloon
balloon
15,451 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « baissaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baissaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bɛ.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #84,547 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « baissaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
baissaient is uncommon French at frequency #84,547 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bɛ.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe baisser.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for baissaient, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is baissaient, spelled B-A-I-S-S-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe baisser.
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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