emportaient
\ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tɛ\
The verdict
“emportaient” is uncommon French (frequency #76,531 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,531
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de emporter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-emportaient · emportaient · French
emportaient · rank #76,531 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,531
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH emport
Nearest frequency peer: emport (-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 « emportaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Einaudi
Einaudi
23,473 corpus weight
- emport
emport
23,471 corpus weight
- emportaient
emportaient
23,470 corpus weight
- empress
empress
23,469 corpus weight
- emprisonnem…
emprisonnements
23,468 corpus weight
- encombrantes
encombrantes
23,467 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « emportaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | emportaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #76,531 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « emportaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
emportaient is uncommon French at frequency #76,531 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de emporter.".
emportaient doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 emportaient, spelled E-M-P-O-R-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de emporter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how emportaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La torture devenait atroce, des voix tremblantes de pitié et de colère s’emportaient, suppliaient qu’on l’achevât, ce misérable cheval qui souffrait tant, et dont le râle sans fin, maintenant que la machine était morte, restait comme la lamentation dernière de la catastrophe.
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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