exhortait
\ɛɡ.zɔʁ.tɛ\
The verdict
“exhortait” is uncommon French (frequency #90,706 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,706
- 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 exhorter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-exhortait · exhortait · French
exhortait · rank #90,706 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,706
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH execute
Nearest frequency peer: execute (-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 « exhortait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- exciser
exciser
9,298 corpus weight
- excluons
excluons
9,297 corpus weight
- execute
execute
9,296 corpus weight
- exhortait
exhortait
9,295 corpus weight
- exploitez
exploitez
9,294 corpus weight
- exprimais
exprimais
9,292 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « exhortait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exhortait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛɡ.zɔʁ.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #90,706 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « exhortait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
exhortait is uncommon French at frequency #90,706 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛɡ.zɔʁ.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de exhorter.".
Zero misspellings are on record for exhortait in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is exhortait, spelled E-X-H-O-R-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de exhorter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how exhortait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce prélat dont les options politiques étaient connues depuis longtemps et qui, à la suite de Léon XIII, souhaitait la formation en France d’un parti républicain modéré groupant tous les « honnêtes gens », catholiques ou non, fut accueilli avec une réserve polie par la coterie légitimiste, très influente dans le diocèse, qui le soupçonnait non sans raison…
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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