interrogeaient

\ɛ̃.te.ʁɔ.ʒɛ\

/\ɛ̃.te.ʁɔ.ʒɛ\/ verb

The verdict

“interrogeaient” is uncommon French (frequency #72,438 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#72,438
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 interroger.

Corpus desk

Index FR-interrogeaient · interrogeaient · French

interrogeaient · rank #72,438 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #72,438
  • LEN-MEGA 14 letters
  • VOW-7 7 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH interjection

Nearest frequency peer: interjection (-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 « interrogeaient »

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for interrogeaient
PropertyValue
Headwordinterrogeaient
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛ̃.te.ʁɔ.ʒɛ\
Letters14
Frequency rank#72,438
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « interrogeaient » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.interrogeaienttombe 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: « interjection » (#72,437), « intoxiqués » (#72,439), « interféron » (#72,436). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « interrogeaient » est au #72,438. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

interrogeaient is uncommon French at frequency #72,438 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃.te.ʁɔ.ʒɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de interroger.".

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

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is interrogeaient, spelled I-N-T-E-R-R-O-G-E-A-I-E-N-T.

Definition

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

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Il leur faudrait plus de deux mois pour couvrir cette distance et, tandis que le Haerlem faisait voile franc ouest, soleil levant dans le dos, soleil couchant sur l’étrave, espars craquant et voiles pleines d’un vent rassurant, les frères s’interrogeaient sur le sort des deux bateaux frères.

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 "interrogeaient"?
"interrogeaient" is spelled I-N-T-E-R-R-O-G-E-A-I-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.te.ʁɔ.ʒɛ\.
What does "interrogeaient" mean?
As a verb, "interrogeaient" means: Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de interroger.
How do you pronounce "interrogeaient"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "interrogeaient" is \ɛ̃.te.ʁɔ.ʒɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list