lavaient
\la.vɛ\
The verdict
“lavaient” is uncommon French (frequency #97,098 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,098
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de laver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lavaient · lavaient · French
lavaient · rank #97,098 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,098
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH larvé
Nearest frequency peer: larvé (-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 « lavaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lancier
lancier
2,907 corpus weight
- larger
larger
2,905 corpus weight
- larvé
larvé
2,904 corpus weight
- lavaient
lavaient
2,903 corpus weight
- lays
lays
2,902 corpus weight
- lege
lege
2,899 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lavaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lavaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \la.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,098 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lavaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lavaient is uncommon French at frequency #97,098 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \la.vɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de laver.".
Zero misspellings are on record for lavaient in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is lavaient, spelled L-A-V-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de laver.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lavaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’odeur le prit à la gorge, lui qui avait pourtant l’habitude des scènes de crime chez les semi-clodos en tout genre et des intérieurs de campagne où vivaient de vieux ermites qui ne se lavaient jamais.
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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