construisirent
\kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.ziʁ\
The verdict
“construisirent” is uncommon French (frequency #68,159 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,159
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de construire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-construisirent · construisirent · French
construisirent · rank #68,159 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,159
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH constaterez
Nearest frequency peer: constaterez (-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 « construisirent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- conservaient
conservaient
31,845 corpus weight
- conservative
conservative
31,844 corpus weight
- constaterez
constaterez
31,843 corpus weight
- construisir…
construisirent
31,842 corpus weight
- contextuali…
contextualiser
31,841 corpus weight
- contextuel
contextuel
31,840 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « construisirent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | construisirent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.ziʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #68,159 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « construisirent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
construisirent is uncommon French at frequency #68,159 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.ziʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de construire.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for construisirent, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 construisirent, spelled C-O-N-S-T-R-U-I-S-I-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de construire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how construisirent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais ne serait-il pas plus simple d'hypothéser que les anciens pré-chrétiens construisirent des modèles similaires pour la bonne raison qu'ils leur offraient des chances plus grandes de « compréhension » de l'univers, une telle explication, nettement psycho-affective a le mérite de faire apparaître comme moins choquantes, certaines des aspirations, de la…
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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