questionnait
\kɛs.tjɔ.nɛ\
The verdict
“questionnait” is uncommon French (frequency #76,939 among 352 “Q” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,939
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de questionner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-questionnait · questionnait · French
questionnait · rank #76,939 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,939
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH quittées
Nearest frequency peer: quittées (+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 « questionnait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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quartzite
23,065 corpus weight
- questionnait
questionnait
23,062 corpus weight
- quittées
quittées
23,061 corpus weight
- racism
racism
23,060 corpus weight
- raconteras
raconteras
23,059 corpus weight
- radja
radja
23,057 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « questionnait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | questionnait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɛs.tjɔ.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #76,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « questionnait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
questionnait is uncommon French at frequency #76,939 among 352 “Q” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɛs.tjɔ.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de questionner.".
questionnait has no tracked misspelling variants, 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, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 questionnait, spelled Q-U-E-S-T-I-O-N-N-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de questionner.
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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