choisissaient

\ʃwa.zi.sɛ\

/\ʃwa.zi.sɛ\/ verb

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The verdict

“choisissaient” is uncommon French (frequency #60,637 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#60,637
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 de choisir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-choisissaient · choisissaient · French

choisissaient · rank #60,637 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #60,637
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH chocolatée

Nearest frequency peer: chocolatée (-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 « choisissaient »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « choisissaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for choisissaient
PropertyValue
Headwordchoisissaient
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʃwa.zi.sɛ\
Letters13
Frequency rank#60,637
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « choisissaient » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.choisissaienttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « chocolatée » (#60,636), « Christus » (#60,639), « chronographe » (#60,640). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « choisissaient » est au #60,637. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

choisissaient is uncommon French at frequency #60,637 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʃwa.zi.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de choisir.".

choisissaient doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is choisissaient, spelled C-H-O-I-S-I-S-S-A-I-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de choisir.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "choisissaient"?
"choisissaient" is spelled C-H-O-I-S-I-S-S-A-I-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃwa.zi.sɛ\.
What does "choisissaient" mean?
As a verb, "choisissaient" means: Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de choisir.
How do you pronounce "choisissaient"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "choisissaient" is \ʃwa.zi.sɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "choisissaient" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "choisissaient", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list