éprouvaient
\e.pʁu.vɛ\
The verdict
“éprouvaient” is uncommon French (frequency #79,000 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,000
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de éprouver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eprouvaient · éprouvaient · French
éprouvaient · rank #79,000 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,000
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH épouserait
Nearest frequency peer: épouserait (-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 « éprouvaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- épigraphiqu…
épigraphiques
21,004 corpus weight
- épitaphes
épitaphes
21,003 corpus weight
- épouserait
épouserait
21,002 corpus weight
- éprouvaient
éprouvaient
21,001 corpus weight
- érodée
érodée
21,000 corpus weight
- érogènes
érogènes
20,999 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « éprouvaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | éprouvaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.pʁu.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #79,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « éprouvaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
éprouvaient is uncommon French at frequency #79,000 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.pʁu.vɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de éprouver.".
No misspelling variants are generated for éprouvaient in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is éprouvaient, spelled É-P-R-O-U-V-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de éprouver.
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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