privait
\pʁi.vɛ\
The verdict
“privait” is uncommon French (frequency #67,018 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,018
- 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 priver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-privait · privait · French
privait · rank #67,018 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,018
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH priceless
Nearest frequency peer: priceless (-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 « privait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- PPL
PPL
32,987 corpus weight
- priaient
priaient
32,985 corpus weight
- priceless
priceless
32,984 corpus weight
- privait
privait
32,983 corpus weight
- prosaïqueme…
prosaïquement
32,982 corpus weight
- proscrite
proscrite
32,981 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « privait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | privait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁi.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,018 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « privait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
privait is uncommon French at frequency #67,018 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁi.vɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de priver.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for privait in our index, 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is privait, spelled P-R-I-V-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de priver.
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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