concentraient
\kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tʁɛ\
The verdict
“concentraient” is uncommon French (frequency #70,494 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,494
- 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 concentrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-concentraient · concentraient · French
concentraient · rank #70,494 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,494
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH concilie
Nearest frequency peer: concilie (+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 « concentraient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- compilateurs
compilateurs
29,510 corpus weight
- complaisent
complaisent
29,509 corpus weight
- concentraie…
concentraient
29,507 corpus weight
- concilie
concilie
29,506 corpus weight
- concord
concord
29,505 corpus weight
- concurrencée
concurrencée
29,504 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « concentraient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | concentraient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #70,494 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « concentraient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
concentraient is uncommon French at frequency #70,494 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de concentrer.".
Zero misspellings are on record for concentraient in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is concentraient, spelled C-O-N-C-E-N-T-R-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de concentrer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how concentraient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si sur la route de Loimola, les Russes souffraient des constantes attaques et des champs de mines invisibles, et s’ils n’avaient toujours pas identifié la base arrière d’où le haut commandement prenait les décisions, ils avaient toutefois parfaitement localisé le front de Kollaa et y concentraient l’essentiel de leurs attaques d’artillerie...
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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