hésitaient
^((h muet))\e.zi.tɛ\
The verdict
“hésitaient” is uncommon French (frequency #50,893 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,893
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de hésiter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hesitaient · hésitaient · French
hésitaient · rank #50,893 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,893
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Howell
Nearest frequency peer: Howell (-2 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 « hésitaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hooker
hooker
49,112 corpus weight
- hourra
hourra
49,111 corpus weight
- Howell
Howell
49,110 corpus weight
- hésitaient
hésitaient
49,108 corpus weight
- immondices
immondices
49,106 corpus weight
- impala
impala
49,105 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hésitaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hésitaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\e.zi.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #50,893 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hésitaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hésitaient is uncommon French at frequency #50,893 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed ^((h muet))\e.zi.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de hésiter.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hésitaient, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is hésitaient, spelled H-É-S-I-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de hésiter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hésitaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et puis Dumas et son complice d’écriture Auguste Maquet n’hésitaient pas à manipuler l’Histoire pour servir leur intrigue.
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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