échappaient
\e.ʃa.pɛ\
The verdict
“échappaient” is uncommon French (frequency #55,691 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,691
- 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 échapper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-echappaient · échappaient · French
échappaient · rank #55,691 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,691
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH échalote
Nearest frequency peer: échalote (-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 « échappaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- zn
zn
44,313 corpus weight
- zéphyr
zéphyr
44,312 corpus weight
- échalote
échalote
44,311 corpus weight
- échappaient
échappaient
44,310 corpus weight
- éclectiques
éclectiques
44,309 corpus weight
- écorcher
écorcher
44,308 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « échappaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | échappaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.ʃa.pɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #55,691 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « échappaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
échappaient is uncommon French at frequency #55,691 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.ʃa.pɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de échapper.".
échappaient doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 échappaient, spelled É-C-H-A-P-P-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de échapper.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how échappaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les deux vaches, menées d’abord par la plus jeune des deux filles le long des routes, s’échappaient la plupart du temps dans les prés des Aigues ; mais comme au moindre délit trop flagrant pour que le garde se dispensât de le constater, les enfants étaient battus ou privés de quelque friandise, ils avaient acquis une habileté singulière pour entendre les…
Il essaya de trouver une vague issue à cette farce tragique dont les éléments lui échappaient en bloc.
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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