critiquaient
\kʁi.ti.kɛ\
The verdict
“critiquaient” is uncommon French (frequency #57,193 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,193
- 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 critiquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-critiquaient · critiquaient · French
critiquaient · rank #57,193 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,193
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH crispe
Nearest frequency peer: crispe (-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 « critiquaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crapuleux
crapuleux
42,811 corpus weight
- crasses
crasses
42,810 corpus weight
- crispe
crispe
42,809 corpus weight
- critiquaient
critiquaient
42,808 corpus weight
- crochus
crochus
42,807 corpus weight
- croisillon
croisillon
42,806 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « critiquaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | critiquaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁi.ti.kɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #57,193 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « critiquaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
critiquaient is uncommon French at frequency #57,193 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kʁi.ti.kɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de critiquer.".
Zero misspellings are on record for critiquaient in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is critiquaient, spelled C-R-I-T-I-Q-U-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de critiquer.
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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