opéraient
\ɔ.pe.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“opéraient” is uncommon French (frequency #61,001 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,001
- 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 l’indicatif de opérer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-operaient · opéraient · French
opéraient · rank #61,001 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,001
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH opiniâtreté
Nearest frequency peer: opiniâtreté (-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 « opéraient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- OFCE
OFCE
39,004 corpus weight
- ondulées
ondulées
39,003 corpus weight
- ope
ope
39,002 corpus weight
- opiniâtreté
opiniâtreté
39,001 corpus weight
- opéraient
opéraient
39,000 corpus weight
- oublia
oublia
38,999 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « opéraient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | opéraient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɔ.pe.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,001 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « opéraient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
opéraient is uncommon French at frequency #61,001 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɔ.pe.ʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de opérer.".
opéraient has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is opéraient, spelled O-P-É-R-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de opérer.
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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