flottaient
\flo.tɛ\
The verdict
“flottaient” is uncommon French (frequency #63,761 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,761
- 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 flotter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flottaient · flottaient · French
flottaient · rank #63,761 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,761
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH floquet
Nearest frequency peer: floquet (-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 « flottaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fiévreuse
fiévreuse
36,243 corpus weight
- flamboyantes
flamboyantes
36,242 corpus weight
- floquet
floquet
36,241 corpus weight
- flottaient
flottaient
36,240 corpus weight
- flûtiste
flûtiste
36,239 corpus weight
- fonctionner…
fonctionneront
36,238 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flottaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flottaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \flo.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #63,761 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flottaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flottaient is uncommon French at frequency #63,761 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \flo.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de flotter.".
flottaient has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is flottaient, spelled F-L-O-T-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de flotter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how flottaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dommage, car j’aimais bien ces odeurs vigoureuses qui flottaient dans l’air au moment de la torréfaction, ou encore la couleur vive des cerises de café étalées au soleil.
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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