méfiait
\me.fjɛ\
The verdict
“méfiait” is uncommon French (frequency #67,720 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,720
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de méfier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mefiait · méfiait · French
méfiait · rank #67,720 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,720
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH médiatiser
Nearest frequency peer: médiatiser (-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 « méfiait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mya
mya
32,284 corpus weight
- myriades
myriades
32,283 corpus weight
- médiatiser
médiatiser
32,282 corpus weight
- méfiait
méfiait
32,281 corpus weight
- métamorphe
métamorphe
32,279 corpus weight
- métayers
métayers
32,278 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « méfiait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | méfiait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \me.fjɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,720 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « méfiait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
méfiait is uncommon French at frequency #67,720 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \me.fjɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de méfier.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for méfiait, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is méfiait, spelled M-É-F-I-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de méfier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how méfiait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il se méfiait des jumelles ultra-puissantes de l’armée, celles qui voient la merde même là où elle n’est pas.
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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