éloignaient
\e.lwa.ɲɛ\
The verdict
“éloignaient” is uncommon French (frequency #92,359 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,359
- 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 éloigner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eloignaient · éloignaient · French
éloignaient · rank #92,359 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,359
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH éminences
Nearest frequency peer: éminences (+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 « éloignaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- échalas
échalas
7,646 corpus weight
- éloignaient
éloignaient
7,642 corpus weight
- éminences
éminences
7,641 corpus weight
- émoustillé
émoustillé
7,640 corpus weight
- éprouves
éprouves
7,639 corpus weight
- étendez
étendez
7,638 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « éloignaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | éloignaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.lwa.ɲɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #92,359 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « éloignaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
éloignaient is uncommon French at frequency #92,359 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.lwa.ɲɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de éloigner.".
éloignaient has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 éloignaient, spelled É-L-O-I-G-N-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de éloigner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how éloignaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le caporal Brezisky, flanqué de trois autres sous-officiers de la garnison, s’avançait au-devant d’eux. Trop tard pour s’esquiver par l’une des multiples venelles qui s’éloignaient de la rue principale, parfois si étroites que les toits des maisons se touchaient à leur sommet.
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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