échangeaient
\e.ʃɑ̃.ʒɛ\
The verdict
“échangeaient” is uncommon French (frequency #58,369 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,369
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de échanger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-echangeaient · échangeaient · French
échangeaient · rank #58,369 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,369
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH zirconium
Nearest frequency peer: zirconium (-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 « échangeaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- XVIème
XVIème
41,635 corpus weight
- zirconium
zirconium
41,633 corpus weight
- échangeaient
échangeaient
41,632 corpus weight
- éclatants
éclatants
41,631 corpus weight
- éjecte
éjecte
41,630 corpus weight
- éventualités
éventualités
41,628 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « échangeaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | échangeaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.ʃɑ̃.ʒɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #58,369 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « échangeaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
échangeaient is uncommon French at frequency #58,369 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.ʃɑ̃.ʒɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de échanger.".
échangeaient has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is échangeaient, spelled É-C-H-A-N-G-E-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de échanger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how échangeaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pourtant, le fil de leurs phrases se dévidait dans un murmure, comme s'ils les échangeaient dans le même lit, tout juste réveillés d'un cauchemar.
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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