évitaient
\e.vi.tɛ\
The verdict
“évitaient” is uncommon French (frequency #75,372 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,372
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de éviter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-evitaient · évitaient · French
évitaient · rank #75,372 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,372
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH étonna
Nearest frequency peer: étonna (-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 « évitaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- épagneul
épagneul
24,634 corpus weight
- épandre
épandre
24,633 corpus weight
- épidémiques
épidémiques
24,632 corpus weight
- épisodiques
épisodiques
24,631 corpus weight
- étonna
étonna
24,630 corpus weight
- évitaient
évitaient
24,629 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « évitaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | évitaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.vi.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,372 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « évitaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
évitaient is uncommon French at frequency #75,372 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.vi.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de éviter.".
évitaient doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is évitaient, spelled É-V-I-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de éviter.
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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