crachaient
\kʁa.ʃɛ\
The verdict
“crachaient” is uncommon French (frequency #83,741 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,741
- 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 cracher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-crachaient · crachaient · French
crachaient · rank #83,741 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,741
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cramée
Nearest frequency peer: cramée (+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 « crachaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cordelier
cordelier
16,263 corpus weight
- cotter
cotter
16,262 corpus weight
- crachaient
crachaient
16,260 corpus weight
- cramée
cramée
16,259 corpus weight
- crashe
crashe
16,258 corpus weight
- crist
crist
16,257 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « crachaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crachaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁa.ʃɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #83,741 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « crachaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
crachaient is uncommon French at frequency #83,741 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kʁa.ʃɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de cracher.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for crachaient, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is crachaient, spelled C-R-A-C-H-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de cracher.
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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