haïssaient
\a.i.sɛ\
The verdict
“haïssaient” is uncommon French (frequency #86,782 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,782
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de haïr.
Corpus desk
Index FR-haissaient · haïssaient · French
haïssaient · rank #86,782 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,782
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Harker
Nearest frequency peer: Harker (-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 « haïssaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Haren
Haren
13,222 corpus weight
- Harker
Harker
13,220 corpus weight
- haïssaient
haïssaient
13,219 corpus weight
- heb
heb
13,218 corpus weight
- Herbin
Herbin
13,217 corpus weight
- Hernández
Hernández
13,216 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « haïssaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | haïssaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.i.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #86,782 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « haïssaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
haïssaient is uncommon French at frequency #86,782 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.i.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de haïr.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for haïssaient, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is haïssaient, spelled H-A-Ï-S-S-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de haïr.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how haïssaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’ailleurs, loin d’avoir cette politique rédemptrice qui va chercher la force là où Dieu l’a mise, ces grandes petites gens haïssaient toute force qui ne venait pas d’eux ; enfin, loin de se rajeunir, le faubourg Saint-Germain s’est avieilli.
Eux se haïssaient eux-mêmes.
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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