glissaient
\ɡli.sɛ\
The verdict
“glissaient” is uncommon French (frequency #96,969 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,969
- 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 glisser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-glissaient · glissaient · French
glissaient · rank #96,969 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,969
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH glaçure
Nearest frequency peer: glaçure (-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 « glissaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ging
ging
3,036 corpus weight
- glandouille
glandouille
3,034 corpus weight
- glaçure
glaçure
3,033 corpus weight
- glissaient
glissaient
3,032 corpus weight
- gloser
gloser
3,031 corpus weight
- godiva
godiva
3,029 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « glissaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glissaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡli.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #96,969 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « glissaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
glissaient is uncommon French at frequency #96,969 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡli.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de glisser.".
glissaient doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is glissaient, spelled G-L-I-S-S-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de glisser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how glissaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les familles poussetaient leurs enfants comme s’il s’agissait du futur dalaï-lama ; centaures à roulettes, les ados glissaient, piétinant leurs skates ; les vélos sinuaient dans la foule ensoleillée ; les athlètes en marcels fluos suaient dans l’air iodé ; légères, volubiles et nombreuses, les filles passaient.
La grosse femme ne la regardait pas et se contentait d’avancer, râlant dans ses mi-bas qui glissaient mollement sur ses chevilles grasses.
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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