inscrivaient
\ɛ̃s.kʁi.vɛ\
The verdict
“inscrivaient” is uncommon French (frequency #78,521 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,521
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de inscrire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inscrivaient · inscrivaient · French
inscrivaient · rank #78,521 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,521
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inopérants
Nearest frequency peer: inopérants (-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 « inscrivaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- indéchiffra…
indéchiffrable
21,483 corpus weight
- ingérées
ingérées
21,482 corpus weight
- inopérants
inopérants
21,481 corpus weight
- inscrivaient
inscrivaient
21,480 corpus weight
- insula
insula
21,479 corpus weight
- interdisez
interdisez
21,478 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « inscrivaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inscrivaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃s.kʁi.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #78,521 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « inscrivaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
inscrivaient is uncommon French at frequency #78,521 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃s.kʁi.vɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de inscrire.".
inscrivaient doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is inscrivaient, spelled I-N-S-C-R-I-V-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de inscrire.
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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