éclairait
\e.klɛ.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“éclairait” is uncommon French (frequency #64,889 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,889
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de éclairer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eclairait · éclairait · French
éclairait · rank #64,889 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,889
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH éclairera
Nearest frequency peer: éclairera (+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 « éclairait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- âpreté
âpreté
35,115 corpus weight
- échapperont
échapperont
35,114 corpus weight
- éclairait
éclairait
35,112 corpus weight
- éclairera
éclairera
35,111 corpus weight
- églantine
églantine
35,110 corpus weight
- électifs
électifs
35,109 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « éclairait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | éclairait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.klɛ.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,889 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « éclairait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
éclairait is uncommon French at frequency #64,889 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.klɛ.ʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de éclairer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for éclairait in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is éclairait, spelled É-C-L-A-I-R-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de éclairer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how éclairait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Seule, une petite lanterne éclairait le niveau d’eau, pour que nulle lumière n’aveuglât le mécanicien ; et, sur le cadran du manomètre, dont l’émail semblait garder une lueur propre, il avait vu que l’aiguille bleue, tremblante, baissait rapidement.
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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