plaisaient
\plɛ.zɛ\
The verdict
“plaisaient” is uncommon French (frequency #51,047 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,047
- 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 plaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plaisaient · plaisaient · French
plaisaient · rank #51,047 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,047
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH più
Nearest frequency peer: più (-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 « plaisaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pirogues
pirogues
48,957 corpus weight
- pisciculture
pisciculture
48,956 corpus weight
- più
più
48,955 corpus weight
- plaisaient
plaisaient
48,954 corpus weight
- pliable
pliable
48,953 corpus weight
- plumer
plumer
48,951 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « plaisaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plaisaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \plɛ.zɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #51,047 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plaisaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plaisaient is uncommon French at frequency #51,047 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \plɛ.zɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de plaire.".
plaisaient has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is plaisaient, spelled P-L-A-I-S-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de plaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how plaisaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Certes, je n’étais pas une sainte car, de mon côté, le mariage me servait à m’émanciper et, Denis étant en mer, j’en profitais pour aller danser en boite avec mon amie Béatrice, flirtant un peu avec des jeunes gens qui me plaisaient et, quand ils me donnaient rendez-vous, je leur disais m’appeler Natacha leur faisant ainsi faux bond !
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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