chassaient
\ʃa.sɛ\
The verdict
“chassaient” is uncommon French (frequency #66,581 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,581
- 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 chasser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chassaient · chassaient · French
chassaient · rank #66,581 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,581
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chapelure
Nearest frequency peer: chapelure (-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 « chassaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Champeaux
Champeaux
33,423 corpus weight
- chapelets
chapelets
33,422 corpus weight
- chapelure
chapelure
33,421 corpus weight
- chassaient
chassaient
33,420 corpus weight
- chaînette
chaînette
33,418 corpus weight
- chiper
chiper
33,417 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « chassaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chassaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃa.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #66,581 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « chassaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
chassaient is uncommon French at frequency #66,581 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʃa.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe chasser.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for chassaient, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is chassaient, spelled C-H-A-S-S-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe chasser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chassaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quant aux autres, les gradés, les rampouilles, c’était un vrai régal pour celles qui chassaient le mou.
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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