insultaient

\ɛ̃.syl.tɛ\

/\ɛ̃.syl.tɛ\/ verb

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The verdict

“insultaient” is uncommon French (frequency #75,793 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#75,793
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 insulter.

Corpus desk

Index FR-insultaient · insultaient · French

insultaient · rank #75,793 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #75,793
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH institutes

Nearest frequency peer: institutes (-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 « insultaient »

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 « insultaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for insultaient
PropertyValue
Headwordinsultaient
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛ̃.syl.tɛ\
Letters11
Frequency rank#75,793
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « insultaient » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.insultaienttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « institutes » (#75,792), « interceptent » (#75,794), « institua » (#75,791). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « insultaient » est au #75,793. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

insultaient is uncommon French at frequency #75,793 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃.syl.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de insulter.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for insultaient, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is insultaient, spelled I-N-S-U-L-T-A-I-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de insulter.

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 "insultaient"?
"insultaient" is spelled I-N-S-U-L-T-A-I-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.syl.tɛ\.
What does "insultaient" mean?
As a verb, "insultaient" means: Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de insulter.
How do you pronounce "insultaient"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "insultaient" is \ɛ̃.syl.tɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "insultaient" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list