envahissaient

\ɑ̃.va.i.sɛ\

/\ɑ̃.va.i.sɛ\/ verb

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « envahissaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for envahissaient
PropertyValue
Headwordenvahissaient
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɑ̃.va.i.sɛ\
Letters13
Frequency rank#80,181
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « envahissaient » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).envahissaienttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « ensanglantées » (#80,180), « envisagea » (#80,182), « Enola » (#80,179). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « envahissaient » est au #80,181. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de envahir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how envahissaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "envahissaient"?
"envahissaient" is spelled E-N-V-A-H-I-S-S-A-I-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.va.i.sɛ\.
What does "envahissaient" mean?
As a verb, "envahissaient" means: Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de envahir.
How do you pronounce "envahissaient"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "envahissaient" is \ɑ̃.va.i.sɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "envahissaient", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list