interrogeaient
\ɛ̃.te.ʁɔ.ʒɛ\
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
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interbancaire
27,566 corpus weight
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interféron
27,565 corpus weight
- interjection
interjection
27,564 corpus weight
- interrogeai…
interrogeaient
27,563 corpus weight
- intoxiqués
intoxiqués
27,562 corpus weight
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intrigants
27,561 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « interrogeaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | interrogeaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.te.ʁɔ.ʒɛ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #72,438 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « interrogeaient » en français
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
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de interroger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how interrogeaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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