octroyait
\ok.tʁwa.jɛ\
The verdict
“octroyait” is uncommon French (frequency #94,074 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,074
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de octroyer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-octroyait · octroyait · French
octroyait · rank #94,074 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,074
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ODR
Nearest frequency peer: ODR (+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 « octroyait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- noster
noster
5,931 corpus weight
- Néhémie
Néhémie
5,930 corpus weight
- octroyait
octroyait
5,927 corpus weight
- ODR
ODR
5,926 corpus weight
- oisive
oisive
5,925 corpus weight
- oléagineuses
oléagineuses
5,924 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « octroyait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | octroyait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ok.tʁwa.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #94,074 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « octroyait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
octroyait is uncommon French at frequency #94,074 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ok.tʁwa.jɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de octroyer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for octroyait in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is octroyait, spelled O-C-T-R-O-Y-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de octroyer.
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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