combattirent
\kɔ̃.ba.tiʁ\
The verdict
“combattirent” is uncommon French (frequency #71,362 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,362
- 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 de combattre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-combattirent · combattirent · French
combattirent · rank #71,362 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,362
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Colombus
Nearest frequency peer: Colombus (-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 « combattirent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- CNL
CNL
28,642 corpus weight
- Coaticook
Coaticook
28,641 corpus weight
- Colombus
Colombus
28,640 corpus weight
- combattirent
combattirent
28,639 corpus weight
- commanditée
commanditée
28,637 corpus weight
- commettez
commettez
28,635 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « combattirent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | combattirent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.ba.tiʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #71,362 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « combattirent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
combattirent is uncommon French at frequency #71,362 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.ba.tiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de combattre.".
combattirent doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is combattirent, spelled C-O-M-B-A-T-T-I-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de combattre.
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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