grandissaient
\ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɛ\
The verdict
“grandissaient” is uncommon French (frequency #95,966 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,966
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de grandir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grandissaient · grandissaient · French
grandissaient · rank #95,966 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,966
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH grabataire
Nearest frequency peer: grabataire (-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 « grandissaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- goudronné
goudronné
4,037 corpus weight
- grabataire
grabataire
4,036 corpus weight
- grandissaie…
grandissaient
4,035 corpus weight
- grape
grape
4,034 corpus weight
- griotte
griotte
4,032 corpus weight
- Grosseto
Grosseto
4,031 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « grandissaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grandissaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #95,966 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grandissaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grandissaient is uncommon French at frequency #95,966 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de grandir.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for grandissaient, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is grandissaient, spelled G-R-A-N-D-I-S-S-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de grandir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how grandissaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’idée de vivre dans une ville ouatée d’amiante, poudrée par le poison, guettée par l’asbestose, ne me préoccupait pas plus que les autres résidents de Thetford Mines, qui naissaient, grandissaient, apprenaient, flirtaient, baisaient, se mariaient, s'assuraient, travaillaient, divorçaient, socialisaient, rebaisaient, vieillissaient, toussaient, et mouraie…
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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