dînait
\di.nɛ\
The verdict
“dînait” is uncommon French (frequency #74,740 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,740
- 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 dîner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dinait · dînait · French
dînait · rank #74,740 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,740
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dévaluations
Nearest frequency peer: dévaluations (-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 « dînait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dépravée
dépravée
25,265 corpus weight
- désinscrire
désinscrire
25,264 corpus weight
- dévaluations
dévaluations
25,262 corpus weight
- dînait
dînait
25,261 corpus weight
- eating
eating
25,260 corpus weight
- effaces
effaces
25,257 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dînait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dînait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \di.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,740 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dînait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dînait is uncommon French at frequency #74,740 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \di.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de dîner.".
dînait doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dînait, spelled D-Î-N-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de dîner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dînait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De toutes les maîtresses de maison où il dînait, Mme Berthier était la seule que Pons nommât de son petit nom : il lui disait : « Félicie ! » et il croyait parfois être compris par elle.
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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