éteignait
\e.tɛ.ɲɛ\
The verdict
“éteignait” is uncommon French (frequency #69,550 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,550
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de éteindre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eteignait · éteignait · French
éteignait · rank #69,550 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,550
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH évents
Nearest frequency peer: évents (+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 « éteignait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- éméché
éméché
30,456 corpus weight
- épatante
épatante
30,455 corpus weight
- épistolaires
épistolaires
30,454 corpus weight
- équilibriste
équilibriste
30,453 corpus weight
- éteignait
éteignait
30,451 corpus weight
- évents
évents
30,450 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « éteignait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | éteignait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.tɛ.ɲɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,550 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « éteignait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
éteignait is uncommon French at frequency #69,550 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.tɛ.ɲɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de éteindre.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for éteignait, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is éteignait, spelled É-T-E-I-G-N-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de éteindre.
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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