participais
\paʁ.ti.si.pɛ\
The verdict
“participais” is uncommon French (frequency #67,763 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,763
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de participer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-participais · participais · French
participais · rank #67,763 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,763
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 « participais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- patronymique
patronymique
32,235 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « participais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | participais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \paʁ.ti.si.pɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #67,763 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « participais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
participais is uncommon French at frequency #67,763 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \paʁ.ti.si.pɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for participais, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is participais, spelled P-A-R-T-I-C-I-P-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de participer.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de participer.
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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