hurlaient
^((h aspiré))\yʁ.lɛ\
The verdict
“hurlaient” is uncommon French (frequency #55,347 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,347
- 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 hurler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hurlaient · hurlaient · French
hurlaient · rank #55,347 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,347
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hummel
Nearest frequency peer: Hummel (-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 « hurlaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- honorées
honorées
44,656 corpus weight
- Hummel
Hummel
44,655 corpus weight
- hurlaient
hurlaient
44,654 corpus weight
- hygiéniste
hygiéniste
44,653 corpus weight
- hésiteront
hésiteront
44,652 corpus weight
- hétérosexua…
hétérosexualité
44,651 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hurlaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hurlaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\yʁ.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #55,347 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hurlaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hurlaient is uncommon French at frequency #55,347 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\yʁ.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de hurler.".
hurlaient has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is hurlaient, spelled H-U-R-L-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de hurler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hurlaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les hommes s’étaient donné du courage en buvant, ou en fumant, souvent les deux à la fois. Certains d’entre eux étaient surexcités. Fanatiques, ils hurlaient comme des loups en chargeant.
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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