fabriquaient
\fa.bʁi.kɛ\
The verdict
“fabriquaient” is uncommon French (frequency #57,948 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,948
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de fabriquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fabriquaient · fabriquaient · French
fabriquaient · rank #57,948 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,948
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH extensif
Nearest frequency peer: extensif (-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 « fabriquaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- exodus
exodus
42,057 corpus weight
- expressionn…
expressionniste
42,056 corpus weight
- extasier
extasier
42,055 corpus weight
- extensif
extensif
42,054 corpus weight
- fabriquaient
fabriquaient
42,053 corpus weight
- falk
falk
42,050 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fabriquaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fabriquaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fa.bʁi.kɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #57,948 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fabriquaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fabriquaient is uncommon French at frequency #57,948 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fa.bʁi.kɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de fabriquer.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for fabriquaient, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fabriquaient, spelled F-A-B-R-I-Q-U-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de fabriquer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fabriquaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le basin, l’acier, le lacet épuraient et ne fabriquaient pas les lignes serpentines de cette élégance, comparable à celle d’un jeune peuplier balancé par le vent.
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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