estoit
\e.tɛ\
The verdict
“estoit” is uncommon French (frequency #55,941 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,941
- 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 du verbe estre (forme ancienne de être), équivalent de était.
Corpus desk
Index FR-estoit · estoit · French
estoit · rank #55,941 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,941
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH ethnographiqu…
Nearest frequency peer: ethnographiques (+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 « estoit »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Ermont
Ermont
44,064 corpus weight
- Errol
Errol
44,063 corpus weight
- estoit
estoit
44,060 corpus weight
- ethnographi…
ethnographiques
44,059 corpus weight
- Eurasie
Eurasie
44,057 corpus weight
- evangelion
evangelion
44,056 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « estoit » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | estoit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,941 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « estoit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
estoit is uncommon French at frequency #55,941 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait du verbe estre (forme ancienne de être), équivalent de était.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for estoit, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is estoit, spelled E-S-T-O-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait du verbe estre (forme ancienne de être), équivalent de était.
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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