peuplaient
\pœ.plɛ\
The verdict
“peuplaient” is uncommon French (frequency #80,499 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,499
- 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 l’indicatif de peupler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-peuplaient · peuplaient · French
peuplaient · rank #80,499 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,499
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Persépolis
Nearest frequency peer: Persépolis (-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 « peuplaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- perfectionn…
perfectionnées
19,506 corpus weight
- persistez
persistez
19,505 corpus weight
- persécuteur
persécuteur
19,504 corpus weight
- Persépolis
Persépolis
19,503 corpus weight
- peuplaient
peuplaient
19,502 corpus weight
- Phoebus
Phoebus
19,500 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « peuplaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peuplaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pœ.plɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #80,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « peuplaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
peuplaient is uncommon French at frequency #80,499 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pœ.plɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de peupler.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for peuplaient, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is peuplaient, spelled P-E-U-P-L-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de peupler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how peuplaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ceux qui la peuplaient étaient dans un état de déréliction pire que des naufragés.
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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