défiait
\de.fjɛ\
The verdict
“défiait” is uncommon French (frequency #85,665 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,665
- 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 défier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-defiait · défiait · French
défiait · rank #85,665 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,665
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dédoublements
Nearest frequency peer: dédoublements (-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 « défiait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- décontaminer
décontaminer
14,340 corpus weight
- dédouble
dédouble
14,338 corpus weight
- dédoublemen…
dédoublements
14,337 corpus weight
- défiait
défiait
14,336 corpus weight
- déités
déités
14,335 corpus weight
- délèguent
délèguent
14,333 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « défiait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | défiait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.fjɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,665 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « défiait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
défiait is uncommon French at frequency #85,665 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.fjɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de défier.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for défiait, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is défiait, spelled D-É-F-I-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de défier.
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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