célébraient
\se.le.bʁɛ\
The verdict
“célébraient” is uncommon French (frequency #57,862 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,862
- 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 célébrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-celebraient · célébraient · French
célébraient · rank #57,862 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,862
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cursive
Nearest frequency peer: cursive (-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 « célébraient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cuisinières
cuisinières
42,143 corpus weight
- cultivait
cultivait
42,142 corpus weight
- curatives
curatives
42,141 corpus weight
- cursive
cursive
42,140 corpus weight
- célébraient
célébraient
42,139 corpus weight
- dantesque
dantesque
42,138 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « célébraient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | célébraient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \se.le.bʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #57,862 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « célébraient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
célébraient is uncommon French at frequency #57,862 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \se.le.bʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe célébrer.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for célébraient, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is célébraient, spelled C-É-L-É-B-R-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe célébrer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how célébraient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
S’il est plausible de percevoir ici ou là quelques accents eucharistiques, Hébreux, en tout cas, n’a certainement pas sacralisé, ni « sacrificialisé » l’eucharistie, ni, encore moins, « sacerdotalisé » ceux qui la célébraient sans doute.
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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