purgeait
\pyʁ.ʒɛ\
The verdict
“purgeait” is uncommon French (frequency #96,275 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,275
- 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 purger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-purgeait · purgeait · French
purgeait · rank #96,275 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,275
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH présentatrices
Nearest frequency peer: présentatrices (-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 « purgeait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- préfacier
préfacier
3,729 corpus weight
- préparèrent
préparèrent
3,728 corpus weight
- présentatri…
présentatrices
3,727 corpus weight
- purgeait
purgeait
3,726 corpus weight
- putter
putter
3,725 corpus weight
- PVD
PVD
3,724 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « purgeait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | purgeait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pyʁ.ʒɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #96,275 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « purgeait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
purgeait is uncommon French at frequency #96,275 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pyʁ.ʒɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de purger.".
Zero misspellings are on record for purgeait in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is purgeait, spelled P-U-R-G-E-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de purger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how purgeait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On eût dit que la terre même où étaient plantées nos maisons se purgeait de son chargement d’humeurs, qu’elle laissait monter à la surface des furoncles et des sanies qui, jusqu’ici, la travaillaient intérieurement.
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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