caractérisait
\ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zɛ\
The verdict
“caractérisait” is uncommon French (frequency #55,119 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,119
- 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 caractériser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caracterisait · caractérisait · French
caractérisait · rank #55,119 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,119
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cambouis
Nearest frequency peer: cambouis (-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 « caractérisait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cairn
cairn
44,885 corpus weight
- caller
caller
44,884 corpus weight
- cambouis
cambouis
44,883 corpus weight
- caractérisa…
caractérisait
44,882 corpus weight
- carnassiers
carnassiers
44,881 corpus weight
- carriole
carriole
44,880 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « caractérisait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caractérisait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zɛ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #55,119 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « caractérisait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
caractérisait is uncommon French at frequency #55,119 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 singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe caractériser.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for caractérisait in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is caractérisait, spelled C-A-R-A-C-T-É-R-I-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe caractériser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how caractérisait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gabriel Morange avait appris à vivre dans cet état d’urgence permanent, qui caractérisait ceux qui osaient se battre pour résister, traqués comme du gibier par tout ce que l’Amérique comptait d’hommes en armes. Il dut se glisser dans la peau d’un animal pourchassé, devant lui-même tuer pour survivre. Un jeu du chat et de la souris, où les acteurs changeai…
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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