ennuyaient
\ɑ̃.nɥi.jɛ\
The verdict
“ennuyaient” is uncommon French (frequency #91,662 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,662
- 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 ennuyer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ennuyaient · ennuyaient · French
ennuyaient · rank #91,662 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,662
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enquiquiner
Nearest frequency peer: enquiquiner (+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 « ennuyaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enfermes
enfermes
8,343 corpus weight
- enfumée
enfumée
8,342 corpus weight
- ennuyaient
ennuyaient
8,339 corpus weight
- enquiquiner
enquiquiner
8,338 corpus weight
- enregistrai…
enregistraient
8,337 corpus weight
- enserrent
enserrent
8,336 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ennuyaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ennuyaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.nɥi.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #91,662 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ennuyaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ennuyaient is uncommon French at frequency #91,662 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.nɥi.jɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de ennuyer.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ennuyaient in our 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 documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ennuyaient, spelled E-N-N-U-Y-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de ennuyer.
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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