causaient
\ko.zɛ\
The verdict
“causaient” is uncommon French (frequency #72,161 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,161
- 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 causer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-causaient · causaient · French
causaient · rank #72,161 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,161
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caucasienne
Nearest frequency peer: caucasienne (-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 « causaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Carlsbad
Carlsbad
27,844 corpus weight
- cassante
cassante
27,842 corpus weight
- caucasienne
caucasienne
27,841 corpus weight
- causaient
causaient
27,840 corpus weight
- cavallo
cavallo
27,838 corpus weight
- ceva
ceva
27,837 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « causaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | causaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ko.zɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #72,161 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « causaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
causaient is uncommon French at frequency #72,161 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ko.zɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe causer.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for causaient, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 causaient, spelled C-A-U-S-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe causer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how causaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y avait deux femmes, qui causaient à voix basse, dans le rouf, et un douanier, près du treuil, qui roulait sa cigarette.
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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