motivait
\mɔ.ti.vɛ\
The verdict
“motivait” is uncommon French (frequency #79,545 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,545
- 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 motiver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-motivait · motivait · French
motivait · rank #79,545 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,545
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Montmorillon
Nearest frequency peer: Montmorillon (-2 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 « motivait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- monogames
monogames
20,460 corpus weight
- Montlhéry
Montlhéry
20,459 corpus weight
- Montmorillon
Montmorillon
20,458 corpus weight
- motivait
motivait
20,456 corpus weight
- mozza
mozza
20,454 corpus weight
- multiplicat…
multiplicateurs
20,452 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « motivait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | motivait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɔ.ti.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,545 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « motivait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
motivait is uncommon French at frequency #79,545 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mɔ.ti.vɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de motiver.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for motivait, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is motivait, spelled M-O-T-I-V-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de motiver.
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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