consentait
\kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tɛ\
The verdict
“consentait” is uncommon French (frequency #97,806 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,806
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de consentir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-consentait · consentait · French
consentait · rank #97,806 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,806
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH conseillaient
Nearest frequency peer: conseillaient (-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 « consentait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- contempla
contempla
2,192 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « consentait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | consentait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #97,806 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « consentait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
consentait is uncommon French at frequency #97,806 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de consentir.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for consentait, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is consentait, spelled C-O-N-S-E-N-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de consentir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how consentait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a réhellénisé les graphies comme s’il consentait à ce que le français ait bénéficié directement d’un héritage grec, révélant le travestissement grotesque des savants qui prendraient au sérieux les « mirifiques pantoufles » du pape.
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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