heurtait
^((h aspiré))\œʁ.tɛ\
The verdict
“heurtait” is uncommon French (frequency #77,585 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,585
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de heurter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-heurtait · heurtait · French
heurtait · rank #77,585 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,585
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH herbeux
Nearest frequency peer: herbeux (-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 « heurtait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- handsome
handsome
22,421 corpus weight
- herbeux
herbeux
22,417 corpus weight
- heurtait
heurtait
22,416 corpus weight
- Holocaust
Holocaust
22,413 corpus weight
- homa
homa
22,412 corpus weight
- homophones
homophones
22,411 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « heurtait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | heurtait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\œʁ.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,585 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « heurtait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
heurtait is uncommon French at frequency #77,585 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\œʁ.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de heurter.".
Zero misspellings are on record for heurtait in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is heurtait, spelled H-E-U-R-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de heurter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how heurtait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À toute allure les autobus, les omnibus et les charrettes de commissionnaires voituraient malles et valises vers la gare ; sur les quais envahis, l’exode des hiverneurs d’élite se heurtait à la bousculade des voyageurs de toute espèce.
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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