distinguaient
\dis.tɛ̃.ɡɛ\
The verdict
“distinguaient” is uncommon French (frequency #75,607 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,607
- 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 distinguer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-distinguaient · distinguaient · French
distinguaient · rank #75,607 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,607
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dissemblables
Nearest frequency peer: dissemblables (-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 « distinguaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- disposes
disposes
24,397 corpus weight
- Disraeli
Disraeli
24,396 corpus weight
- dissemblabl…
dissemblables
24,395 corpus weight
- distinguaie…
distinguaient
24,394 corpus weight
- dori
dori
24,392 corpus weight
- douillette
douillette
24,391 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « distinguaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | distinguaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dis.tɛ̃.ɡɛ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #75,607 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « distinguaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
distinguaient is uncommon French at frequency #75,607 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \dis.tɛ̃.ɡɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de distinguer.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for distinguaient, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is distinguaient, spelled D-I-S-T-I-N-G-U-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de distinguer.
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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