protestait
\pʁɔ.tɛs.tɛ\
The verdict
“protestait” is uncommon French (frequency #86,058 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,058
- 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 protester.
Corpus desk
Index FR-protestait · protestait · French
protestait · rank #86,058 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,058
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH protected
Nearest frequency peer: protected (-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 « protestait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- proroger
proroger
13,945 corpus weight
- protected
protected
13,944 corpus weight
- protestait
protestait
13,943 corpus weight
- protégea
protégea
13,942 corpus weight
- prouvons
prouvons
13,941 corpus weight
- provoqueront
provoqueront
13,940 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « protestait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | protestait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.tɛs.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #86,058 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « protestait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
protestait is uncommon French at frequency #86,058 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁɔ.tɛs.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de protester.".
No misspelling variants are generated for protestait in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented 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 protestait, spelled P-R-O-T-E-S-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de protester.
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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