calmait
\kal.mɛ\
The verdict
“calmait” is uncommon French (frequency #76,396 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,396
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe calmer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calmait · calmait · French
calmait · rank #76,396 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,396
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH calcinée
Nearest frequency peer: calcinée (-2 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 « calmait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cabochons
cabochons
23,609 corpus weight
- calanque
calanque
23,608 corpus weight
- calcinée
calcinée
23,607 corpus weight
- calmait
calmait
23,605 corpus weight
- cancérologue
cancérologue
23,603 corpus weight
- canna
canna
23,601 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « calmait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calmait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kal.mɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,396 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « calmait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
calmait is uncommon French at frequency #76,396 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kal.mɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe calmer.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for calmait, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is calmait, spelled C-A-L-M-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe calmer.
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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