frottait
\fʁɔ.tɛ\
The verdict
“frottait” is uncommon French (frequency #70,661 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,661
- 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 frotter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-frottait · frottait · French
frottait · rank #70,661 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,661
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Friedland
Nearest frequency peer: Friedland (-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 « frottait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fraie
fraie
29,343 corpus weight
- frappants
frappants
29,342 corpus weight
- Friedland
Friedland
29,341 corpus weight
- frottait
frottait
29,340 corpus weight
- fugitives
fugitives
29,338 corpus weight
- fuie
fuie
29,337 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « frottait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frottait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fʁɔ.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,661 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « frottait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
frottait is uncommon French at frequency #70,661 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fʁɔ.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de frotter.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for frottait, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is frottait, spelled F-R-O-T-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de frotter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how frottait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un valet écorchait l’animal et portait la peau à la « loge », la cahute des boucaniers. Là, il la « brochetait », c’est-à-dire l’étendait par terre, l’attachait avec 64 chevilles de bois, le dedans de la peau au-dessus, la frottait de sel et de cendre bien battus ensemble, pour la faire sécher plus vite.
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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