descendirent
\dɛ.sɑ̃.diʁ\
The verdict
“descendirent” is uncommon French (frequency #81,049 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,049
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de descendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-descendirent · descendirent · French
descendirent · rank #81,049 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,049
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Deshaies
Nearest frequency peer: Deshaies (+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 « descendirent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Delafosse
Delafosse
18,956 corpus weight
- Delaune
Delaune
18,954 corpus weight
- descendirent
descendirent
18,952 corpus weight
- Deshaies
Deshaies
18,951 corpus weight
- diablotin
diablotin
18,949 corpus weight
- dialoguent
dialoguent
18,948 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « descendirent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | descendirent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dɛ.sɑ̃.diʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #81,049 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « descendirent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
descendirent is uncommon French at frequency #81,049 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \dɛ.sɑ̃.diʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de descendre.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for descendirent, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is descendirent, spelled D-E-S-C-E-N-D-I-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de descendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how descendirent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les chasseurs sellèrent leurs chevaux, descendirent la colline avec précaution et s’élancèrent sur la piste des Comanches.
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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