parcouraient
\paʁ.ku.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“parcouraient” is uncommon French (frequency #67,761 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,761
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de parcourir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-parcouraient · parcouraient · French
parcouraient · rank #67,761 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,761
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH parlementer
Nearest frequency peer: parlementer (+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 « parcouraient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Ouédraogo
Ouédraogo
32,244 corpus weight
- parcouraient
parcouraient
32,240 corpus weight
- parlementer
parlementer
32,239 corpus weight
- participais
participais
32,238 corpus weight
- participati…
participatives
32,237 corpus weight
- pastoralisme
pastoralisme
32,236 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « parcouraient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parcouraient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \paʁ.ku.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #67,761 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « parcouraient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
parcouraient is uncommon French at frequency #67,761 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \paʁ.ku.ʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de parcourir.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for parcouraient, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is parcouraient, spelled P-A-R-C-O-U-R-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de parcourir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how parcouraient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Partout le marbre blanc régnait. De la pierre marmoréenne émanait une douce clarté que les délicates nervures noires qui la parcouraient ne suffisaient pas à affaiblir.
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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