imitait

\i.mi.tɛ\

/\i.mi.tɛ\/ verb

The verdict

“imitait” is uncommon French (frequency #74,079 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#74,079
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de imiter.

Corpus desk

Index FR-imitait · imitait · French

imitait · rank #74,079 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #74,079
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH impalpable

Nearest frequency peer: impalpable (+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 « imitait »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « imitait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for imitait
PropertyValue
Headwordimitait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\i.mi.tɛ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#74,079
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « imitait » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).imitaittombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « impalpable » (#74,080), « illa » (#74,077), « imperméabilité » (#74,081). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « imitait » est au #74,079. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

imitait is uncommon French at frequency #74,079 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \i.mi.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de imiter.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for imitait in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 imitait, spelled I-M-I-T-A-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de imiter.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how imitait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Elle imitait les héroïnes de ces romans geignards et vicieux que scribouillaient, avec le plus grand succès, des romanciers minables comme Gyp, Ohnet ou Bourget.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "imitait"?
"imitait" is spelled I-M-I-T-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \i.mi.tɛ\.
What does "imitait" mean?
As a verb, "imitait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de imiter.
How do you pronounce "imitait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "imitait" is \i.mi.tɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "imitait" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "imitait", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list