écrivirent
\e.kʁi.viʁ\
The verdict
“écrivirent” is uncommon French (frequency #87,278 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,278
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de écrire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecrivirent · écrivirent · French
écrivirent · rank #87,278 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,278
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH éclates
Nearest frequency peer: éclates (-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 « écrivirent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- échelonnées
échelonnées
12,726 corpus weight
- éclairants
éclairants
12,725 corpus weight
- éclates
éclates
12,724 corpus weight
- écrivirent
écrivirent
12,723 corpus weight
- épinettes
épinettes
12,721 corpus weight
- érogène
érogène
12,720 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « écrivirent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | écrivirent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.kʁi.viʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #87,278 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « écrivirent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
écrivirent is uncommon French at frequency #87,278 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.kʁi.viʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de écrire.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for écrivirent, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 écrivirent, spelled É-C-R-I-V-I-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de écrire.
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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