débordait
\de.bɔʁ.dɛ\
The verdict
“débordait” is uncommon French (frequency #61,465 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,465
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de déborder.
Corpus desk
Index FR-debordait · débordait · French
débordait · rank #61,465 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,465
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH débattait
Nearest frequency peer: débattait (-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 « débordait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Dury
Dury
38,539 corpus weight
- DVG
DVG
38,538 corpus weight
- débattait
débattait
38,537 corpus weight
- débordait
débordait
38,536 corpus weight
- débrayage
débrayage
38,535 corpus weight
- décisionnel…
décisionnelle
38,534 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « débordait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | débordait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.bɔʁ.dɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,465 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « débordait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
débordait is uncommon French at frequency #61,465 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.bɔʁ.dɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de déborder.".
Zero misspellings are on record for débordait in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is débordait, spelled D-É-B-O-R-D-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de déborder.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how débordait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La vigne vierge débordait un peu sur la pancarte brune aux lettres beigeâtres, légèrement écaillées.
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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