conduisaient
\kɔ̃.dɥi.zɛ\
The verdict
“conduisaient” is uncommon French (frequency #52,582 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,582
- 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 conduire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-conduisaient · conduisaient · French
conduisaient · rank #52,582 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,582
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH comptée
Nearest frequency peer: comptée (-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 « conduisaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- complaisants
complaisants
47,422 corpus weight
- compromissi…
compromissions
47,421 corpus weight
- comptée
comptée
47,420 corpus weight
- conduisaient
conduisaient
47,419 corpus weight
- conglomérats
conglomérats
47,418 corpus weight
- conjurés
conjurés
47,417 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « conduisaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | conduisaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.dɥi.zɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #52,582 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « conduisaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
conduisaient is uncommon French at frequency #52,582 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.dɥi.zɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de conduire.".
No misspelling variants are generated for conduisaient in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is conduisaient, spelled C-O-N-D-U-I-S-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de conduire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how conduisaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme il n’était pas question de laisser les disciplinaires se servir du tracteur, encore moins des tronçonneuses, des scies et des haches, sur les quatre employés à la scierie, deux étaient chargés d’empiler un stère après l’autre de quartiers de bois dégrumés sur des traîneaux que leurs schlitteurs, coincés entre deux limons (dos calé contre la charreté…
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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