édifient
\e.di.fi\
The verdict
“édifient” is uncommon French (frequency #96,529 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,529
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de édifier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-edifient · édifient · French
édifient · rank #96,529 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,529
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH éculés
Nearest frequency peer: éculés (-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 « édifient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ébaucher
ébaucher
3,475 corpus weight
- écoutilles
écoutilles
3,474 corpus weight
- éculés
éculés
3,473 corpus weight
- édifient
édifient
3,472 corpus weight
- égalisant
égalisant
3,471 corpus weight
- églantier
églantier
3,470 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « édifient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | édifient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.di.fi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #96,529 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « édifient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
édifient is uncommon French at frequency #96,529 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.di.fi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for édifient in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is édifient, spelled É-D-I-F-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de édifier.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de édifier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how édifient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Afin de mieux insérer leur patrimoine dans le cadre bâti, les bailleurs sociaux édifient des immeubles dont la taille moyenne n'excède pas 20 logements.
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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