nourrissaient
\nu.ʁi.sɛ\
The verdict
“nourrissaient” is uncommon French (frequency #57,465 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,465
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de nourrir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nourrissaient · nourrissaient · French
nourrissaient · rank #57,465 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,465
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nourricière
Nearest frequency peer: nourricière (-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 « nourrissaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nolife
nolife
42,539 corpus weight
- nonchalant
nonchalant
42,538 corpus weight
- nourricière
nourricière
42,537 corpus weight
- nourrissaie…
nourrissaient
42,536 corpus weight
- noyades
noyades
42,535 corpus weight
- nuise
nuise
42,534 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nourrissaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nourrissaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nu.ʁi.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #57,465 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nourrissaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nourrissaient is uncommon French at frequency #57,465 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \nu.ʁi.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de nourrir.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for nourrissaient in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 nourrissaient, spelled N-O-U-R-R-I-S-S-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de nourrir.
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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