consista
\kɔ̃.sis.ta\
The verdict
“consista” is uncommon French (frequency #87,490 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,490
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de consister.
Corpus desk
Index FR-consista · consista · French
consista · rank #87,490 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,490
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH consacraient
Nearest frequency peer: consacraient (-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 « consista »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- concurremme…
concurremment
12,514 corpus weight
- consacraient
consacraient
12,512 corpus weight
- consista
consista
12,511 corpus weight
- consolez
consolez
12,510 corpus weight
- contestaient
contestaient
12,509 corpus weight
- contiendrai…
contiendraient
12,508 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « consista » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | consista |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.sis.ta\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,490 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « consista » en français
Rare enough to double-check
consista is uncommon French at frequency #87,490 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.sis.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de consister.".
Zero misspellings are on record for consista in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is consista, spelled C-O-N-S-I-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de consister.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how consista appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’une d’elles consista à découvrir un facteur qui, très tôt, induit les cellules « dorsalisantes par défaut » à se « ventraliser ».
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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