nageait
\na.ʒɛ\
The verdict
“nageait” is uncommon French (frequency #63,948 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,948
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de nager.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nageait · nageait · French
nageait · rank #63,948 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,948
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH mésanges
Nearest frequency peer: mésanges (-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 « nageait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- médité
médité
36,056 corpus weight
- ménageant
ménageant
36,055 corpus weight
- mésanges
mésanges
36,054 corpus weight
- nageait
nageait
36,053 corpus weight
- natio
natio
36,050 corpus weight
- neuroscience
neuroscience
36,049 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nageait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nageait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \na.ʒɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,948 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nageait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nageait is uncommon French at frequency #63,948 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \na.ʒɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de nager.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for nageait, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is nageait, spelled N-A-G-E-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de nager.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nageait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Melrose posa sa canne et déboutonna puis reboutonna le manteau de Bertie, qui nageait dedans.
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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