errait
\ɛ.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“errait” is uncommon French (frequency #69,055 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,055
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de errer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-errait · errait · French
errait · rank #69,055 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,055
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH entrelacées
Nearest frequency peer: entrelacées (-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 « errait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- entrelacées
entrelacées
30,947 corpus weight
- errait
errait
30,946 corpus weight
- escampette
escampette
30,945 corpus weight
- eschatologi…
eschatologique
30,944 corpus weight
- esquimau
esquimau
30,943 corpus weight
- esquives
esquives
30,942 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « errait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | errait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,055 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « errait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
errait is uncommon French at frequency #69,055 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ.ʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de errer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for errait in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is errait, spelled E-R-R-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de errer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how errait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Badinant avec son sac à monture en or, elle partageait son attention entre les murailles du palais où elle errait évidemment pour la première fois et la laisse d’un joli kings’ dog.
Just errait à journées longues sur les remparts, dans la seule compagnie de son chantier abandonné.
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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