dataient
\da.tɛ\
The verdict
“dataient” is uncommon French (frequency #64,364 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,364
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de dater.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dataient · dataient · French
dataient · rank #64,364 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,364
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Danville
Nearest frequency peer: Danville (-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 « dataient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- daims
daims
35,639 corpus weight
- Danville
Danville
35,638 corpus weight
- dataient
dataient
35,637 corpus weight
- datas
datas
35,636 corpus weight
- davant
davant
35,635 corpus weight
- Delga
Delga
35,633 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dataient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dataient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \da.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,364 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dataient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dataient is uncommon French at frequency #64,364 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \da.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de dater.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for dataient, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 dataient, spelled D-A-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de dater.
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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