louaient

\lwɛ\

/\lwɛ\/ verb

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The verdict

“louaient” is uncommon French (frequency #72,506 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#72,506
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 louer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-louaient · louaient · French

louaient · rank #72,506 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #72,506
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,567
  • PHOTO-FINISH Lory

Nearest frequency peer: Lory (-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 « louaient »

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for louaient
PropertyValue
Headwordlouaient
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\lwɛ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#72,506
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « louaient » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).louaienttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Lory » (#72,505), « longiligne » (#72,504), « Lublin » (#72,509). Parmi 2,567 lemmes en « L », « louaient » est au #72,506. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

louaient is uncommon French at frequency #72,506 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \lwɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de louer.".

Zero misspellings are on record for louaient in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

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 louaient, spelled L-O-U-A-I-E-N-T.

Definition

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

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

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Lisandro#72,501managing#72,520laitages#72,476judaïque#72,458

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list