rapprochaient
\ʁa.pʁɔ.ʃɛ\
The verdict
“rapprochaient” is uncommon French (frequency #76,949 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,949
- 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 rapprocher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rapprochaient · rapprochaient · French
rapprochaient · rank #76,949 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,949
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rapatrie
Nearest frequency peer: rapatrie (-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 « rapprochaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ramifiées
ramifiées
23,056 corpus weight
- rands
rands
23,054 corpus weight
- rapatrie
rapatrie
23,053 corpus weight
- rapprochaie…
rapprochaient
23,052 corpus weight
- Rayane
Rayane
23,051 corpus weight
- Realpolitik
Realpolitik
23,049 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rapprochaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rapprochaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁa.pʁɔ.ʃɛ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #76,949 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rapprochaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rapprochaient is uncommon French at frequency #76,949 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁa.pʁɔ.ʃɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rapprocher.".
rapprochaient doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 rapprochaient, spelled R-A-P-P-R-O-C-H-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rapprocher.
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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