éprouvais
\e.pʁu.vɛ\
The verdict
“éprouvais” is uncommon French (frequency #62,737 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,737
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de éprouver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eprouvais · éprouvais · French
éprouvais · rank #62,737 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,737
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH éocène
Nearest frequency peer: éocène (-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 « éprouvais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- élevez
élevez
37,267 corpus weight
- Éliane
Éliane
37,266 corpus weight
- éocène
éocène
37,265 corpus weight
- éprouvais
éprouvais
37,264 corpus weight
- équatorienne
équatorienne
37,263 corpus weight
- érythème
érythème
37,262 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « éprouvais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | éprouvais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.pʁu.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,737 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « éprouvais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
éprouvais is uncommon French at frequency #62,737 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.pʁu.vɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for éprouvais in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is éprouvais, spelled É-P-R-O-U-V-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de éprouver.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier 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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