contribuaient
\kɔ̃.tʁi.bɥɛ\
The verdict
“contribuaient” is uncommon French (frequency #73,036 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,036
- 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 contribuer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-contribuaient · contribuaient · French
contribuaient · rank #73,036 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,036
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH coronaires
Nearest frequency peer: coronaires (+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 « contribuaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- contentieuse
contentieuse
26,968 corpus weight
- contextuali…
contextualisation
26,967 corpus weight
- contribuaie…
contribuaient
26,965 corpus weight
- coronaires
coronaires
26,964 corpus weight
- corpulent
corpulent
26,963 corpus weight
- couardise
couardise
26,962 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « contribuaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contribuaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁi.bɥɛ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #73,036 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « contribuaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
contribuaient is uncommon French at frequency #73,036 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɔ̃.tʁi.bɥɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de contribuer.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for contribuaient, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is contribuaient, spelled C-O-N-T-R-I-B-U-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de contribuer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contribuaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les canaux d’Orléans, de Briare et du Loing, contribuaient du point de vue économique à l’écoulement sur Paris d’un trafic important, si l’on s’en réfère à un curieux document manuscrit qui a pour titre : Le Guide du Commerce sur les canaux, et dont l’auteur nommé Gourdet, était contrôleur-conducteur à Saint-Mammès.
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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