plongeait
\plɔ̃.ʒɛ\
The verdict
“plongeait” is uncommon French (frequency #54,798 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,798
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de plonger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plongeait · plongeait · French
plongeait · rank #54,798 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,798
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pleureuses
Nearest frequency peer: pleureuses (-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 « plongeait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- piot
piot
45,206 corpus weight
- plato
plato
45,205 corpus weight
- pleureuses
pleureuses
45,204 corpus weight
- plongeait
plongeait
45,203 corpus weight
- Pornic
Pornic
45,201 corpus weight
- posse
posse
45,200 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « plongeait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plongeait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \plɔ̃.ʒɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,798 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « plongeait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
plongeait is uncommon French at frequency #54,798 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \plɔ̃.ʒɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de plonger.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for plongeait, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is plongeait, spelled P-L-O-N-G-E-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de plonger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how plongeait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À gauche, les marquises des halles couvertes ouvraient leurs porches géants, aux vitrages enfumés, celle des grandes lignes, immense, où l’œil plongeait, et que les bâtiments de la poste et de la bouillotterie séparaient des autres, plus petites, celles d’Argenteuil, de Versailles et de la Ceinture ; tandis que le pont de l’Europe, à droite, coupait de so…
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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