frappaient
\fʁa.pɛ\
The verdict
“frappaient” is uncommon French (frequency #57,281 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,281
- 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 frapper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-frappaient · frappaient · French
frappaient · rank #57,281 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,281
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fournissons
Nearest frequency peer: fournissons (-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 « frappaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- forcerait
forcerait
42,723 corpus weight
- formalise
formalise
42,722 corpus weight
- fournissons
fournissons
42,721 corpus weight
- frappaient
frappaient
42,720 corpus weight
- frottez
frottez
42,718 corpus weight
- fuego
fuego
42,717 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « frappaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frappaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fʁa.pɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #57,281 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « frappaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
frappaient is uncommon French at frequency #57,281 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fʁa.pɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de frapper.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for frappaient, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is frappaient, spelled F-R-A-P-P-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de frapper.
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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