frappèrent
\fʁa.pɛʁ\
The verdict
“frappèrent” is uncommon French (frequency #85,734 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,734
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de frapper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-frapperent · frappèrent · French
frappèrent · rank #85,734 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,734
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fransaskoise
Nearest frequency peer: fransaskoise (-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 « frappèrent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fragmentées
fragmentées
14,269 corpus weight
- fransaskoise
fransaskoise
14,268 corpus weight
- frappèrent
frappèrent
14,267 corpus weight
- Fredy
Fredy
14,266 corpus weight
- frileuses
frileuses
14,265 corpus weight
- frisant
frisant
14,264 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « frappèrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frappèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fʁa.pɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #85,734 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « frappèrent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
frappèrent is uncommon French at frequency #85,734 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fʁa.pɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de frapper.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for frappèrent, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is frappèrent, spelled F-R-A-P-P-È-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple 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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