causèrent
\ko.zɛʁ\
The verdict
“causèrent” is uncommon French (frequency #80,971 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,971
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple du verbe causer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-causerent · causèrent · French
causèrent · rank #80,971 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,971
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH castrés
Nearest frequency peer: castrés (-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 « causèrent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cannibal
cannibal
19,036 corpus weight
- carafes
carafes
19,035 corpus weight
- carotène
carotène
19,033 corpus weight
- castrés
castrés
19,032 corpus weight
- causèrent
causèrent
19,030 corpus weight
- chacunes
chacunes
19,026 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « causèrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | causèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ko.zɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,971 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « causèrent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
causèrent is uncommon French at frequency #80,971 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ko.zɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple du verbe causer.".
Zero misspellings are on record for causèrent in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is causèrent, spelled C-A-U-S-È-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple du verbe causer.
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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