recommandaient
\ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃.dɛ\
The verdict
“recommandaient” is uncommon French (frequency #88,019 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,019
- 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 recommander.
Corpus desk
Index FR-recommandaient · recommandaient · French
recommandaient · rank #88,019 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,019
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reclasser
Nearest frequency peer: reclasser (-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 « recommandaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Rawdon
Rawdon
11,984 corpus weight
- reclasser
reclasser
11,983 corpus weight
- recommandai…
recommandaient
11,982 corpus weight
- recommencer…
recommenceront
11,981 corpus weight
- recondition…
reconditionnés
11,980 corpus weight
- recourbe
recourbe
11,979 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « recommandaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | recommandaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃.dɛ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #88,019 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « recommandaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
recommandaient is uncommon French at frequency #88,019 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃.dɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de recommander.".
Zero misspellings are on record for recommandaient in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 recommandaient, spelled R-E-C-O-M-M-A-N-D-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de recommander.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how recommandaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les volets, grossièrement faits, se recommandaient par une solide peinture vert dragon.
Les chevaliers se recommandaient à Dieu et les autres priaient le diable de les en débarrasser.
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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