dérivait
\de.ʁi.vɛ\
The verdict
“dérivait” is uncommon French (frequency #87,574 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,574
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de dériver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-derivait · dérivait · French
dérivait · rank #87,574 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,574
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déprimées
Nearest frequency peer: déprimées (-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 « dérivait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dépolluer
dépolluer
12,430 corpus weight
- dépouilleme…
dépouillements
12,429 corpus weight
- déprimées
déprimées
12,428 corpus weight
- dérivait
dérivait
12,427 corpus weight
- désacralisa…
désacralisation
12,426 corpus weight
- désinstallé
désinstallé
12,425 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dérivait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dérivait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.ʁi.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,574 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dérivait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dérivait is uncommon French at frequency #87,574 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.ʁi.vɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de dériver.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dérivait, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dérivait, spelled D-É-R-I-V-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de dériver.
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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