envahissaient
\ɑ̃.va.i.sɛ\
The verdict
“envahissaient” is uncommon French (frequency #80,181 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,181
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de envahir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-envahissaient · envahissaient · French
envahissaient · rank #80,181 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,181
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH ensanglantées
Nearest frequency peer: ensanglantées (-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 « envahissaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- englobait
englobait
19,823 corpus weight
- Enola
Enola
19,822 corpus weight
- ensanglanté…
ensanglantées
19,821 corpus weight
- envahissaie…
envahissaient
19,820 corpus weight
- envisagea
envisagea
19,819 corpus weight
- equitable
equitable
19,818 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « envahissaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | envahissaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.va.i.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #80,181 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « envahissaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
envahissaient is uncommon French at frequency #80,181 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.va.i.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de envahir.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for envahissaient, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is envahissaient, spelled E-N-V-A-H-I-S-S-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de envahir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how envahissaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des herbes folles envahissaient le cimetière, jamais le conseil municipal ne s’était résigné à voter cinquante francs au garde champêtre, pour qu’il nettoyât.
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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