conseillaient
\kɔ̃.se.jɛ\
The verdict
“conseillaient” is uncommon French (frequency #97,805 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,805
- 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 conseiller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-conseillaient · conseillaient · French
conseillaient · rank #97,805 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,805
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH consentait
Nearest frequency peer: consentait (+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 « conseillaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- commerciali…
commercialisable
2,200 corpus weight
- communiquer…
communiquerons
2,199 corpus weight
- complaisant…
complaisantes
2,198 corpus weight
- conseillaie…
conseillaient
2,196 corpus weight
- consentait
consentait
2,195 corpus weight
- consumait
consumait
2,193 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « conseillaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | conseillaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.se.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #97,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « conseillaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
conseillaient is uncommon French at frequency #97,805 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.se.jɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de conseiller.".
conseillaient doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is conseillaient, spelled C-O-N-S-E-I-L-L-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de conseiller.
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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