découvraient
\de.ku.vʁɛ\
The verdict
“découvraient” is uncommon French (frequency #53,914 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,914
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de découvrir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decouvraient · découvraient · French
découvraient · rank #53,914 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,914
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déclencheurs
Nearest frequency peer: déclencheurs (-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 « découvraient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- débattus
débattus
46,090 corpus weight
- déclenchera
déclenchera
46,089 corpus weight
- déclencheurs
déclencheurs
46,088 corpus weight
- découvraient
découvraient
46,087 corpus weight
- défendable
défendable
46,086 corpus weight
- dégénèrent
dégénèrent
46,084 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « découvraient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | découvraient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.ku.vʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #53,914 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « découvraient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
découvraient is uncommon French at frequency #53,914 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.ku.vʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de découvrir.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for découvraient, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is découvraient, spelled D-É-C-O-U-V-R-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de découvrir.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).