lisaient
\li.zɛ\
The verdict
“lisaient” is uncommon French (frequency #51,578 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,578
- 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 lire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lisaient · lisaient · French
lisaient · rank #51,578 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,578
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lindbergh
Nearest frequency peer: Lindbergh (-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 « lisaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lichen
lichen
48,426 corpus weight
- lieue
lieue
48,425 corpus weight
- Lindbergh
Lindbergh
48,424 corpus weight
- lisaient
lisaient
48,423 corpus weight
- littorales
littorales
48,422 corpus weight
- logeait
logeait
48,421 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lisaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lisaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \li.zɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,578 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lisaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lisaient is uncommon French at frequency #51,578 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \li.zɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de lire.".
lisaient has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is lisaient, spelled L-I-S-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de lire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lisaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tous trois venaient ouvrir les bureaux, les nettoyaient entre sept et huit heures, lisaient les journaux ou politiquaient à leur manière sur les affaires de la division avec d’autres garçons, échangeant entre eux leurs renseignements respectifs.
Ils partageaient les mêmes épreuves et les mêmes rêves, avaient appris dans les mêmes livres : l’Arioste, Virgile, Homère qu’ils lisaient dans le texte...
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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