modifiait
\mɔ.di.fjɛ\
The verdict
“modifiait” is uncommon French (frequency #76,803 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,803
- 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 modifier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-modifiait · modifiait · French
modifiait · rank #76,803 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,803
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mobs
Nearest frequency peer: mobs (-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 « modifiait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- MLF
MLF
23,201 corpus weight
- mobilisons
mobilisons
23,200 corpus weight
- mobs
mobs
23,199 corpus weight
- modifiait
modifiait
23,198 corpus weight
- moissonneus…
moissonneuses
23,197 corpus weight
- monobloc
monobloc
23,195 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « modifiait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | modifiait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɔ.di.fjɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,803 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « modifiait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
modifiait is uncommon French at frequency #76,803 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mɔ.di.fjɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de modifier.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for modifiait, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is modifiait, spelled M-O-D-I-F-I-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de modifier.
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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