gênaient
\ʒe.nɛ\
The verdict
“gênaient” is uncommon French (frequency #80,269 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,269
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de gêner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-genaient · gênaient · French
gênaient · rank #80,269 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,269
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH géorgiennes
Nearest frequency peer: géorgiennes (-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 « gênaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- guichetier
guichetier
19,737 corpus weight
- géorgiennes
géorgiennes
19,733 corpus weight
- gênaient
gênaient
19,732 corpus weight
- hafiz
hafiz
19,729 corpus weight
- haka
haka
19,728 corpus weight
- Harare
Harare
19,727 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gênaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gênaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒe.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,269 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gênaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gênaient is uncommon French at frequency #80,269 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʒe.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de gêner.".
No misspelling variants are generated for gênaient in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is gênaient, spelled G-Ê-N-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de gêner.
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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