détestaient
\de.tɛs.tɛ\
The verdict
“détestaient” is uncommon French (frequency #57,238 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,238
- 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 détester.
Corpus desk
Index FR-detestaient · détestaient · French
détestaient · rank #57,238 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,238
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déterre
Nearest frequency peer: déterre (-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 « détestaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- désespérance
désespérance
42,766 corpus weight
- désespérante
désespérante
42,765 corpus weight
- déterre
déterre
42,764 corpus weight
- détestaient
détestaient
42,763 corpus weight
- dévaloriser
dévaloriser
42,762 corpus weight
- Emblem
Emblem
42,760 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « détestaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | détestaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.tɛs.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #57,238 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « détestaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
détestaient is uncommon French at frequency #57,238 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.tɛs.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de détester.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for détestaient, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is détestaient, spelled D-É-T-E-S-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de détester.
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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