procuraient
\pʁɔ.ky.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“procuraient” is uncommon French (frequency #95,192 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,192
- 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 procurer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-procuraient · procuraient · French
procuraient · rank #95,192 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,192
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH proclamées
Nearest frequency peer: proclamées (-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 « procuraient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prints
prints
4,812 corpus weight
- probabilist…
probabilistes
4,811 corpus weight
- proclamées
proclamées
4,810 corpus weight
- procuraient
procuraient
4,809 corpus weight
- présaison
présaison
4,804 corpus weight
- prévenons
prévenons
4,803 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « procuraient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | procuraient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.ky.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #95,192 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « procuraient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
procuraient is uncommon French at frequency #95,192 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁɔ.ky.ʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de procurer.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for procuraient, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 procuraient, spelled P-R-O-C-U-R-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de procurer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how procuraient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il les apprenait par cœur et les gueulait dans le bois, accordés sur des musiques à lui, et ça donnait des envolées traînantes comme du chant grégorien, qui achalaient des hommes mais lui procuraient, à lui, du cœur à l’ouvrage.
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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