insistaient
\ɛ̃.sis.tɛ\
The verdict
“insistaient” is uncommon French (frequency #74,094 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,094
- 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 l’indicatif de insister.
Corpus desk
Index FR-insistaient · insistaient · French
insistaient · rank #74,094 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,094
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH insatiables
Nearest frequency peer: insatiables (-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 « insistaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- inflationni…
inflationnistes
25,910 corpus weight
- insatiables
insatiables
25,908 corpus weight
- insistaient
insistaient
25,907 corpus weight
- instabilités
instabilités
25,906 corpus weight
- intentionné…
intentionnées
25,905 corpus weight
- intentées
intentées
25,904 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « insistaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | insistaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.sis.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #74,094 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « insistaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
insistaient is uncommon French at frequency #74,094 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃.sis.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de insister.".
Zero misspellings are on record for insistaient in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is insistaient, spelled I-N-S-I-S-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de insister.
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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