obtenaient
\ɔp.tə.nɛ\
The verdict
“obtenaient” is uncommon French (frequency #52,875 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,875
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de obtenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-obtenaient · obtenaient · French
obtenaient · rank #52,875 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,875
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH observera
Nearest frequency peer: observera (-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 « obtenaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- négociées
négociées
47,129 corpus weight
- OACI
OACI
47,128 corpus weight
- observera
observera
47,127 corpus weight
- obtenaient
obtenaient
47,126 corpus weight
- occupy
occupy
47,125 corpus weight
- oj
oj
47,123 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « obtenaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | obtenaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɔp.tə.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #52,875 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « obtenaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
obtenaient is uncommon French at frequency #52,875 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɔp.tə.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de obtenir.".
obtenaient has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is obtenaient, spelled O-B-T-E-N-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de obtenir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how obtenaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le développement des techniques de l’urgence et les résultats spectaculaires qu’elles obtenaient sur le terrain des accidents, dans le traitement des pathologies lourdes et très délabrantes ont attiré, dès le début, l’attention des médias de l’image, en particulier des médecins télévisés, et ont en quelque sorte « façonné » la compréhension du public à ce…
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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