forçaient
\fɔʁ.sɛ\
The verdict
“forçaient” is uncommon French (frequency #78,437 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,437
- 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 forcer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-forcaient · forçaient · French
forçaient · rank #78,437 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,437
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH formeraient
Nearest frequency peer: formeraient (-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 « forçaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Forester
Forester
21,566 corpus weight
- formeraient
formeraient
21,565 corpus weight
- forçaient
forçaient
21,564 corpus weight
- forés
forés
21,563 corpus weight
- fourreaux
fourreaux
21,562 corpus weight
- friperies
friperies
21,561 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « forçaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | forçaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɔʁ.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #78,437 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « forçaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
forçaient is uncommon French at frequency #78,437 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fɔʁ.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de forcer.".
Zero misspellings are on record for forçaient in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is forçaient, spelled F-O-R-Ç-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de forcer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how forçaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En dépit des règles très strictes imposées par les organisateurs pour tenter de régulariser un peu le temps des visites, des groupes de plus en plus compacts pourvus de laissez-passer et de coupe-file de toutes sortes forçaient la vigilance des gardiens et restaient collés le nez au tableau pendant des heures entières.
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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