rappelaient
\ʁa.pə.lɛ\
The verdict
“rappelaient” is uncommon French (frequency #55,545 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,545
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rappeler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rappelaient · rappelaient · French
rappelaient · rank #55,545 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,545
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ramona
Nearest frequency peer: ramona (-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 « rappelaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- quit
quit
44,459 corpus weight
- ramona
ramona
44,457 corpus weight
- rappelaient
rappelaient
44,456 corpus weight
- rasent
rasent
44,455 corpus weight
- rattrapera
rattrapera
44,454 corpus weight
- recadrage
recadrage
44,453 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rappelaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rappelaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁa.pə.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #55,545 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rappelaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rappelaient is uncommon French at frequency #55,545 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁa.pə.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rappeler.".
rappelaient doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is rappelaient, spelled R-A-P-P-E-L-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rappeler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rappelaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un élancement douloureux lui traversa la tête, puis décrut, l’océan noir se dissipa et la réalité se rematérialisa autour de lui, petit à petit. D’abord, le plafond constitué de vieilles planches à claire-voie, et puis des murs de bois qui rappelaient ceux d’une grange ou d’un vieil affenage.
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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