invitaient
\ɛ̃.vi.tɛ\
The verdict
“invitaient” is uncommon French (frequency #75,804 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,804
- 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 inviter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-invitaient · invitaient · French
invitaient · rank #75,804 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,804
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH investissait
Nearest frequency peer: investissait (-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 « invitaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- intériorisa…
intériorisation
24,200 corpus weight
- intérioriser
intérioriser
24,199 corpus weight
- investissait
investissait
24,198 corpus weight
- invitaient
invitaient
24,197 corpus weight
- ires
ires
24,195 corpus weight
- irrévocable…
irrévocablement
24,194 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « invitaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | invitaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.vi.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #75,804 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « invitaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
invitaient is uncommon French at frequency #75,804 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃.vi.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de inviter.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for invitaient, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is invitaient, spelled I-N-V-I-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de inviter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how invitaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cinq fauteuils en rotin vert-prairie et une table en teck invitaient à ce spectacle démesuré ; surtout lorsque la nuit allumait de ses scintillements la rivière Hudson, les buildings et la statue de la Liberté.
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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