entraînaient
\ɑ̃.tʁe.nɛ\
The verdict
“entraînaient” is uncommon French (frequency #58,592 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,592
- 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 entraîner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-entrainaient · entraînaient · French
entraînaient · rank #58,592 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,592
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH entacher
Nearest frequency peer: entacher (-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 « entraînaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- enquêtant
enquêtant
41,412 corpus weight
- enrobage
enrobage
41,411 corpus weight
- entacher
entacher
41,410 corpus weight
- entraînaient
entraînaient
41,409 corpus weight
- entreprenan…
entreprenants
41,408 corpus weight
- erratum
erratum
41,407 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « entraînaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entraînaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tʁe.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #58,592 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « entraînaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
entraînaient is uncommon French at frequency #58,592 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.tʁe.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de entraîner.".
Zero misspellings are on record for entraînaient in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is entraînaient, spelled E-N-T-R-A-Î-N-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de entraîner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how entraînaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme il fait froid ! s’était-il écrié tandis que ses sœurs, aux cheveux dénoués, habillées de chemise de nuit pâles, de jupes onduleuses et de robes de lin froufroutantes, ornées de rubans multicolores (zinzolin, nacarat, aurore), forçaient les malles, les débarras et les penderies, allumaient les bougies, plantaient des bouquets dans les vases, crocheta…
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).