classait
\kla.sɛ\
The verdict
“classait” is uncommon French (frequency #62,141 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,141
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe classer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-classait · classait · French
classait · rank #62,141 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,141
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cinématographe
Nearest frequency peer: cinématographe (-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 « classait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- choyé
choyé
37,863 corpus weight
- cig
cig
37,862 corpus weight
- cinématogra…
cinématographe
37,861 corpus weight
- classait
classait
37,860 corpus weight
- classical
classical
37,859 corpus weight
- Clegg
Clegg
37,858 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « classait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | classait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kla.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,141 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « classait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
classait is uncommon French at frequency #62,141 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kla.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe classer.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for classait, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 classait, spelled C-L-A-S-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe classer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how classait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle possédait, pour tout vocabulaire mycologique, une douzaine de noms de terroir (pieds bleus, pieds de mouton, trompettes, bolets…) sous l’égide desquels elle classait sans discernement des espèces parfaitement contradictoires.
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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