enlevaient
\ɑ̃.lə.vɛ\
The verdict
“enlevaient” is uncommon French (frequency #97,932 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,932
- 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 enlever.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enlevaient · enlevaient · French
enlevaient · rank #97,932 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,932
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enfilait
Nearest frequency peer: enfilait (-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 « enlevaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- endéans
endéans
2,072 corpus weight
- enfilait
enfilait
2,070 corpus weight
- enlevaient
enlevaient
2,069 corpus weight
- enracinent
enracinent
2,068 corpus weight
- enrouée
enrouée
2,067 corpus weight
- entourloupes
entourloupes
2,066 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enlevaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enlevaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.lə.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #97,932 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enlevaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enlevaient is uncommon French at frequency #97,932 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.lə.vɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de enlever.".
Zero misspellings are on record for enlevaient in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 enlevaient, spelled E-N-L-E-V-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de enlever.
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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