destinait
\dɛs.ti.nɛ\
The verdict
“destinait” is uncommon French (frequency #50,162 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,162
- 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 destiner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-destinait · destinait · French
destinait · rank #50,162 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,162
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH desk
Nearest frequency peer: desk (-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 « destinait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- demandiez
demandiez
49,842 corpus weight
- Denain
Denain
49,841 corpus weight
- desk
desk
49,840 corpus weight
- destinait
destinait
49,839 corpus weight
- dictons
dictons
49,838 corpus weight
- Didon
Didon
49,837 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « destinait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | destinait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dɛs.ti.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,162 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « destinait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
destinait is uncommon French at frequency #50,162 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \dɛs.ti.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de destiner.".
Zero misspellings are on record for destinait in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is destinait, spelled D-E-S-T-I-N-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de destiner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how destinait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rappelé à Menthon, il apprit que sa famille lui destinait pour femme Marguerite de Miolans, que la chronique pare de toutes les séductions de la vertu et de la beauté.
Franco-britannique de 32 ans, la jeune femme ne se destinait pas particulièrement au tennis de haut niveau.
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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