déterminait
\de.tɛʁ.mi.nɛ\
The verdict
“déterminait” is uncommon French (frequency #92,674 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,674
- 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 déterminer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-determinait · déterminait · French
déterminait · rank #92,674 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,674
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH détachables
Nearest frequency peer: détachables (-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 « déterminait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- désespoirs
désespoirs
7,330 corpus weight
- déstresser
déstresser
7,329 corpus weight
- détachables
détachables
7,328 corpus weight
- déterminait
déterminait
7,327 corpus weight
- déterminez
déterminez
7,326 corpus weight
- dévisagent
dévisagent
7,325 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « déterminait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | déterminait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.tɛʁ.mi.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #92,674 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « déterminait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
déterminait is uncommon French at frequency #92,674 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.tɛʁ.mi.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de déterminer.".
déterminait has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is déterminait, spelled D-É-T-E-R-M-I-N-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de déterminer.
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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