bougeaient
\bu.ʒɛ\
The verdict
“bougeaient” is uncommon French (frequency #67,334 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,334
- 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 bouger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bougeaient · bougeaient · French
bougeaient · rank #67,334 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,334
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bouffi
Nearest frequency peer: bouffi (-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 « bougeaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bory
bory
32,669 corpus weight
- bouffi
bouffi
32,668 corpus weight
- bougeaient
bougeaient
32,667 corpus weight
- Boutros
Boutros
32,666 corpus weight
- brame
brame
32,665 corpus weight
- bravement
bravement
32,664 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bougeaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bougeaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bu.ʒɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #67,334 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bougeaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bougeaient is uncommon French at frequency #67,334 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bu.ʒɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe bouger.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bougeaient, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 bougeaient, spelled B-O-U-G-E-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe bouger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bougeaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais ici, il y avait aussi une crème à bien faire pénétrer dans la peau pour qu’elle reste souple, des tours de lit à installer pour les patients qui s’agitaient et se débattaient, et des escarres à prévenir chez ceux qui ne bougeaient pas.
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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