empruntait
\ɑ̃.pʁœ̃.tɛ\
The verdict
“empruntait” is uncommon French (frequency #53,928 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,928
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de emprunter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-empruntait · empruntait · French
empruntait · rank #53,928 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,928
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH employa
Nearest frequency peer: employa (-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 « empruntait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- embryonnair…
embryonnaires
46,075 corpus weight
- employa
employa
46,074 corpus weight
- empruntait
empruntait
46,073 corpus weight
- empêches
empêches
46,072 corpus weight
- enrobés
enrobés
46,071 corpus weight
- entry
entry
46,070 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « empruntait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empruntait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.pʁœ̃.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #53,928 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « empruntait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
empruntait is uncommon French at frequency #53,928 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.pʁœ̃.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de emprunter.".
empruntait has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is empruntait, spelled E-M-P-R-U-N-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de emprunter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how empruntait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Joli remorqueur, qui s’engrave bêtement, car, s’il empruntait pour parvenir, s’il s’endettait pour avoir festoyé des députés, pour obtenir des voix et augmenter son influence, je lui dirais : « Voilà ma bourse, puise, mon ami ! »
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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