espionnait
\ɛs.pjɔ.nɛ\
The verdict
“espionnait” is uncommon French (frequency #72,309 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,309
- 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 espionner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-espionnait · espionnait · French
espionnait · rank #72,309 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,309
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH escarres
Nearest frequency peer: escarres (-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 « espionnait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- environnent
environnent
27,697 corpus weight
- envolez
envolez
27,696 corpus weight
- escarres
escarres
27,693 corpus weight
- espionnait
espionnait
27,692 corpus weight
- essayeur
essayeur
27,691 corpus weight
- exagérez
exagérez
27,687 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « espionnait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | espionnait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛs.pjɔ.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #72,309 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « espionnait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
espionnait is uncommon French at frequency #72,309 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛs.pjɔ.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de espionner.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for espionnait, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is espionnait, spelled E-S-P-I-O-N-N-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de espionner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how espionnait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On y aperçoit l’actrice Paolina van Kleef espionner Ellie durant un copieux repas, or, dans le jeu, Dina confiait à Ellie qu’elle l’espionnait à son arrivée à Jackson, et qu’elle était surprise par son appétit.
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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