prolongeait
\pʁɔ.lɔ̃.ʒɛ\
The verdict
“prolongeait” is uncommon French (frequency #61,058 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,058
- 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 prolonger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prolongeait · prolongeait · French
prolongeait · rank #61,058 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,058
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prohibées
Nearest frequency peer: prohibées (-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 « prolongeait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prodigy
prodigy
38,946 corpus weight
- prohibées
prohibées
38,944 corpus weight
- prolongeait
prolongeait
38,943 corpus weight
- promettaient
promettaient
38,942 corpus weight
- préludes
préludes
38,941 corpus weight
- prévenait
prévenait
38,940 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prolongeait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prolongeait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.lɔ̃.ʒɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #61,058 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prolongeait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prolongeait is uncommon French at frequency #61,058 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁɔ.lɔ̃.ʒɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de prolonger.".
No misspelling variants are generated for prolongeait in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 prolongeait, spelled P-R-O-L-O-N-G-E-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de prolonger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how prolongeait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'arrière-saison prolongeait l’éclosion tardive des bolets, des russules "jolies", des tricholomes bleus.
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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