enseignaient
\ɑ̃.se.ɲɛ\
The verdict
“enseignaient” is uncommon French (frequency #76,542 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,542
- 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 enseigner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enseignaient · enseignaient · French
enseignaient · rank #76,542 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,542
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enroulées
Nearest frequency peer: enroulées (-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 « enseignaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- endormais
endormais
23,463 corpus weight
- ENM
ENM
23,462 corpus weight
- enroulant
enroulant
23,461 corpus weight
- enroulées
enroulées
23,460 corpus weight
- enseignaient
enseignaient
23,459 corpus weight
- essa
essa
23,455 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « enseignaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enseignaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.se.ɲɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #76,542 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « enseignaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
enseignaient is uncommon French at frequency #76,542 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.se.ɲɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de enseigner.".
enseignaient doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is enseignaient, spelled E-N-S-E-I-G-N-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de enseigner.
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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