mentionnaient
\mɑ̃.sjɔ.nɛ\
The verdict
“mentionnaient” is uncommon French (frequency #86,920 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,920
- 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 mentionner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mentionnaient · mentionnaient · French
mentionnaient · rank #86,920 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,920
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mentira
Nearest frequency peer: mentira (+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 « mentionnaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- MCP
MCP
13,085 corpus weight
- meets
meets
13,084 corpus weight
- mentionnaie…
mentionnaient
13,081 corpus weight
- mentira
mentira
13,080 corpus weight
- mici
mici
13,079 corpus weight
- micmacs
micmacs
13,077 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mentionnaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mentionnaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.sjɔ.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #86,920 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mentionnaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mentionnaient is uncommon French at frequency #86,920 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mɑ̃.sjɔ.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de mentionner.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mentionnaient in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is mentionnaient, spelled M-E-N-T-I-O-N-N-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de mentionner.
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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