diminuaient
\di.mi.nɥɛ\
The verdict
“diminuaient” is uncommon French (frequency #91,607 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,607
- 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 diminuer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-diminuaient · diminuaient · French
diminuaient · rank #91,607 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,607
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dimensionnée
Nearest frequency peer: dimensionnée (-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 « diminuaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- developers
developers
8,397 corpus weight
- Diao
Diao
8,396 corpus weight
- dimensionnée
dimensionnée
8,395 corpus weight
- diminuaient
diminuaient
8,394 corpus weight
- diminutifs
diminutifs
8,393 corpus weight
- discontinues
discontinues
8,392 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « diminuaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diminuaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \di.mi.nɥɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #91,607 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « diminuaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
diminuaient is uncommon French at frequency #91,607 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \di.mi.nɥɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de diminuer.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for diminuaient, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is diminuaient, spelled D-I-M-I-N-U-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de diminuer.
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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