commettaient
\kɔ.mɛ.tɛ\
The verdict
“commettaient” is uncommon French (frequency #81,898 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,898
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de commettre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-commettaient · commettaient · French
commettaient · rank #81,898 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,898
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH commandons
Nearest frequency peer: commandons (-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 « commettaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- coltan
coltan
18,106 corpus weight
- combatifs
combatifs
18,105 corpus weight
- commandons
commandons
18,104 corpus weight
- commettaient
commettaient
18,103 corpus weight
- commettra
commettra
18,102 corpus weight
- comparutions
comparutions
18,100 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « commettaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | commettaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ.mɛ.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #81,898 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « commettaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
commettaient is uncommon French at frequency #81,898 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ.mɛ.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de commettre.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for commettaient, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is commettaient, spelled C-O-M-M-E-T-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de commettre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how commettaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Charles-Quint avait fait écrire des Heures pour sa maîtresse dont toutes les bordures étaient ornées de figures extravagantes, peintes par Albert Dürer: c’étaient des singes qui se clystérisaient les uns les autres et commettaient entre eux mille indécences.
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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