dégageaient
\de.ɡa.ʒɛ\
The verdict
“dégageaient” is uncommon French (frequency #90,658 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,658
- 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 l’indicatif de dégager.
Corpus desk
Index FR-degageaient · dégageaient · French
dégageaient · rank #90,658 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,658
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH décrirais
Nearest frequency peer: décrirais (-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 « dégageaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- déconcerter
déconcerter
9,345 corpus weight
- décrirais
décrirais
9,344 corpus weight
- dégageaient
dégageaient
9,343 corpus weight
- dégrèvements
dégrèvements
9,342 corpus weight
- déliés
déliés
9,341 corpus weight
- délégitimer
délégitimer
9,340 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dégageaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dégageaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.ɡa.ʒɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #90,658 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dégageaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dégageaient is uncommon French at frequency #90,658 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.ɡa.ʒɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de dégager.".
dégageaient has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is dégageaient, spelled D-É-G-A-G-E-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de dégager.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dégageaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et Jean, resté seul, termina sa besogne, déposant tous les dix mètres des fourchées de fumier, qui dégageaient un redoublement de vapeurs ammoniacales.
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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