pendaient
\pɑ̃.dɛ\
The verdict
“pendaient” is uncommon French (frequency #85,120 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,120
- 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 pendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pendaient · pendaient · French
pendaient · rank #85,120 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,120
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pelées
Nearest frequency peer: pelées (-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 « pendaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- peinturer
peinturer
14,884 corpus weight
- pele
pele
14,883 corpus weight
- pelées
pelées
14,882 corpus weight
- pendaient
pendaient
14,881 corpus weight
- Pentagon
Pentagon
14,880 corpus weight
- perceptive
perceptive
14,878 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pendaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pendaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɑ̃.dɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #85,120 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pendaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pendaient is uncommon French at frequency #85,120 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pɑ̃.dɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de pendre.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pendaient in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pendaient, spelled P-E-N-D-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de pendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pendaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des pare-battages, sortes de bouées bourrées de liège servant à amortir les chocs et à protéger la coque, pendaient aux deux côtés du glisseur.
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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