ralentissait
\ʁa.lɑ̃.ti.sɛ\
The verdict
“ralentissait” is uncommon French (frequency #75,135 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,135
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de ralentir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ralentissait · ralentissait · French
ralentissait · rank #75,135 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,135
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ramis
Nearest frequency peer: ramis (+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 « ralentissait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- quoy
quoy
24,868 corpus weight
- ralentissait
ralentissait
24,866 corpus weight
- ramis
ramis
24,865 corpus weight
- ramollit
ramollit
24,864 corpus weight
- Ramzi
Ramzi
24,863 corpus weight
- raon
raon
24,862 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ralentissait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ralentissait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁa.lɑ̃.ti.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #75,135 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ralentissait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ralentissait is uncommon French at frequency #75,135 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁa.lɑ̃.ti.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de ralentir.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ralentissait in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ralentissait, spelled R-A-L-E-N-T-I-S-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de ralentir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ralentissait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pourtant, comme le train venait de dépasser Bréauté et qu’il ralentissait quelque peu — ce qui mettait sa vitesse à trente kilomètres à l’heure pour le moins, — il feignit de pénétrer au lavabo.
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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