fiait
\fjɛ\
The verdict
“fiait” is uncommon French (frequency #90,725 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,725
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de fier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fiait · fiait · French
fiait · rank #90,725 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,725
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Fezzan
Nearest frequency peer: Fezzan (-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 « fiait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- festus
festus
9,279 corpus weight
- feuillu
feuillu
9,278 corpus weight
- Fezzan
Fezzan
9,277 corpus weight
- fiait
fiait
9,276 corpus weight
- ficeler
ficeler
9,275 corpus weight
- fiestas
fiestas
9,273 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fiait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fiait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fjɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,725 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fiait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fiait is uncommon French at frequency #90,725 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fjɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de fier.".
fiait doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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 fiait, spelled F-I-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de fier.
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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