frôlait
\fʁo.lɛ\
The verdict
“frôlait” is uncommon French (frequency #82,972 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,972
- 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 frôler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-frolait · frôlait · French
frôlait · rank #82,972 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,972
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH frot
Nearest frequency peer: frot (-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 « frôlait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- frogs
frogs
17,032 corpus weight
- fronçant
fronçant
17,031 corpus weight
- frot
frot
17,030 corpus weight
- frôlait
frôlait
17,029 corpus weight
- fumage
fumage
17,028 corpus weight
- funding
funding
17,027 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « frôlait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frôlait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fʁo.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,972 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « frôlait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
frôlait is uncommon French at frequency #82,972 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fʁo.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de frôler.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for frôlait in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is frôlait, spelled F-R-Ô-L-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de frôler.
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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