imitait
\i.mi.tɛ\
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
- ICT
ICT
25,926 corpus weight
- illa
illa
25,924 corpus weight
- imitait
imitait
25,922 corpus weight
- impalpable
impalpable
25,921 corpus weight
- imperméabil…
imperméabilité
25,920 corpus weight
- impunie
impunie
25,919 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « imitait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | imitait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \i.mi.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,079 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « imitait » en français
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
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de imiter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how imitait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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