construisaient
\kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.zɛ\
The verdict
“construisaient” is uncommon French (frequency #63,647 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,647
- 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 construire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-construisaient · construisaient · French
construisaient · rank #63,647 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,647
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH consternée
Nearest frequency peer: consternée (-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 « construisaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- conjonctures
conjonctures
36,357 corpus weight
- consanguin
consanguin
36,356 corpus weight
- consternée
consternée
36,355 corpus weight
- construisai…
construisaient
36,354 corpus weight
- consumériste
consumériste
36,353 corpus weight
- contextuelle
contextuelle
36,352 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « construisaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | construisaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.zɛ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #63,647 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « construisaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
construisaient is uncommon French at frequency #63,647 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.zɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de construire.".
construisaient has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is construisaient, spelled C-O-N-S-T-R-U-I-S-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de construire.
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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