marquaient
\maʁ.kɛ\
The verdict
“marquaient” is uncommon French (frequency #62,434 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,434
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de marquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marquaient · marquaient · French
marquaient · rank #62,434 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,434
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marquages
Nearest frequency peer: marquages (-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 « marquaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- marginaleme…
marginalement
37,570 corpus weight
- Mariannes
Mariannes
37,569 corpus weight
- marquages
marquages
37,568 corpus weight
- marquaient
marquaient
37,567 corpus weight
- Marsa
Marsa
37,566 corpus weight
- masure
masure
37,565 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « marquaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marquaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \maʁ.kɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #62,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « marquaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
marquaient is uncommon French at frequency #62,434 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \maʁ.kɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de marquer.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for marquaient, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is marquaient, spelled M-A-R-Q-U-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de marquer.
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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