procédait
\pʁɔ.se.dɛ\
The verdict
“procédait” is uncommon French (frequency #50,436 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,436
- 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 procéder.
Corpus desk
Index FR-procedait · procédait · French
procédait · rank #50,436 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,436
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH primate
Nearest frequency peer: primate (-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 « procédait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pouet
pouet
49,568 corpus weight
- primate
primate
49,566 corpus weight
- procédait
procédait
49,565 corpus weight
- proférer
proférer
49,564 corpus weight
- proférées
proférées
49,563 corpus weight
- prouvait
prouvait
49,562 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « procédait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | procédait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.se.dɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,436 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « procédait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
procédait is uncommon French at frequency #50,436 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁɔ.se.dɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de procéder.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for procédait in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is procédait, spelled P-R-O-C-É-D-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de procéder.
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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