promenaient
\pʁɔ.mə.nɛ\
The verdict
“promenaient” is uncommon French (frequency #66,253 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,253
- 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 promener.
Corpus desk
Index FR-promenaient · promenaient · French
promenaient · rank #66,253 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,253
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH profaner
Nearest frequency peer: profaner (-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 « promenaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- proba
proba
33,751 corpus weight
- procurez
procurez
33,750 corpus weight
- profaner
profaner
33,749 corpus weight
- promenaient
promenaient
33,748 corpus weight
- promues
promues
33,747 corpus weight
- proportionn…
proportionnées
33,746 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « promenaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | promenaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.mə.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #66,253 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « promenaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
promenaient is uncommon French at frequency #66,253 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁɔ.mə.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de promener.".
Zero misspellings are on record for promenaient in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is promenaient, spelled P-R-O-M-E-N-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de promener.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how promenaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour comble de malheur, le hasard voulut que Suzanne et Berthe, qui se promenaient ensemble, rencontrassent l’abbé Madeline, juste devant la porte ; et ils s’étaient arrêtés tous les trois, ils attendaient.
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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