caractérisaient
\ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zɛ\
The verdict
“caractérisaient” is uncommon French (frequency #98,854 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,854
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe caractériser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caracterisaient · caractérisaient · French
caractérisaient · rank #98,854 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,854
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH capiteux
Nearest frequency peer: capiteux (-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 « caractérisaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Capcir
Capcir
1,150 corpus weight
- capiteux
capiteux
1,148 corpus weight
- caractérisa…
caractérisaient
1,147 corpus weight
- Caradec
Caradec
1,146 corpus weight
- caramélisés
caramélisés
1,145 corpus weight
- cardinalice
cardinalice
1,144 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « caractérisaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caractérisaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zɛ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #98,854 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « caractérisaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
caractérisaient is uncommon French at frequency #98,854 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe caractériser.".
caractérisaient doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is caractérisaient, spelled C-A-R-A-C-T-É-R-I-S-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe caractériser.
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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