fermaient
\fɛʁ.mɛ\
The verdict
“fermaient” is uncommon French (frequency #53,953 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,953
- 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 fermer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fermaient · fermaient · French
fermaient · rank #53,953 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,953
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Ferland
Nearest frequency peer: Ferland (-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 « fermaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- faillir
faillir
46,052 corpus weight
- façonnés
façonnés
46,051 corpus weight
- fenton
fenton
46,050 corpus weight
- Ferland
Ferland
46,049 corpus weight
- fermaient
fermaient
46,048 corpus weight
- Ferney
Ferney
46,047 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fermaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fermaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ.mɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #53,953 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fermaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fermaient is uncommon French at frequency #53,953 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fɛʁ.mɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de fermer.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fermaient, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is fermaient, spelled F-E-R-M-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de fermer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fermaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par instants, ses paupières meurtries se fermaient de fatigue, sans qu’il cessât sa surveillance.
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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