divisaient
\di.vi.zɛ\
The verdict
“divisaient” is uncommon French (frequency #96,825 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,825
- 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 diviser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-divisaient · divisaient · French
divisaient · rank #96,825 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,825
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH doa
Nearest frequency peer: doa (+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 « divisaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- digérées
digérées
3,180 corpus weight
- dilapidation
dilapidation
3,179 corpus weight
- divisaient
divisaient
3,176 corpus weight
- doa
doa
3,175 corpus weight
- doctrinaire
doctrinaire
3,174 corpus weight
- Doms
Doms
3,173 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « divisaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | divisaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \di.vi.zɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #96,825 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « divisaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
divisaient is uncommon French at frequency #96,825 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \di.vi.zɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de diviser.".
Zero misspellings are on record for divisaient in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is divisaient, spelled D-I-V-I-S-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de diviser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how divisaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des trois bandes ou régions qui divisaient devant nous la plaine d’Athènes, nous traversâmes les deux premières, la région inculte et la région cultivée.
Chez les Juifs on donnait ce nom à des espèces de docteurs qui se divisaient en trois classes : les scribes du sanhédrin, qui n’étaient que des greffiers de ce tribunal; les scribes de la loi, dont les décisions étaient exécutées à l’égal de la loi elle-même, et les scribes du peuple, véritables magistrats prononçant des sentences dans les affaires privée…
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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