coûtaient
\ku.tɛ\
The verdict
“coûtaient” is uncommon French (frequency #57,189 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,189
- 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 coûter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-coutaient · coûtaient · French
coûtaient · rank #57,189 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,189
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH courtise
Nearest frequency peer: courtise (-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 « coûtaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- costards
costards
42,815 corpus weight
- couacs
couacs
42,814 corpus weight
- courtise
courtise
42,813 corpus weight
- coûtaient
coûtaient
42,812 corpus weight
- crapuleux
crapuleux
42,811 corpus weight
- crasses
crasses
42,810 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « coûtaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coûtaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ku.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « coûtaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
coûtaient is uncommon French at frequency #57,189 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ku.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de coûter.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for coûtaient, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 coûtaient, spelled C-O-Û-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de coûter.
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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