redevenait

\ʁə.də.və.nɛ\

/\ʁə.də.və.nɛ\/ verb

The verdict

“redevenait” is uncommon French (frequency #84,232 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#84,232
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de redevenir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-redevenait · redevenait · French

redevenait · rank #84,232 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #84,232
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH redessinée

Nearest frequency peer: redessinée (-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 « redevenait »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « redevenait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for redevenait
PropertyValue
Headwordredevenait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʁə.də.və.nɛ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#84,232
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « redevenait » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).redevenaittombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « redessinée » (#84,231), « redwood » (#84,233), « reculade » (#84,230). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « redevenait » est au #84,232. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

redevenait is uncommon French at frequency #84,232 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.də.və.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de redevenir.".

No misspelling variants are generated for redevenait in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 redevenait, spelled R-E-D-E-V-E-N-A-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de redevenir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how redevenait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Arrivé à bon port — en nage, malgré l’air climatisé : cette humanité compactée produisait beaucoup de chaleur — vous n’aviez d’autre choix que de suivre, sans trop réfléchi, abandonnant déjà toute volonté de contrôler quoi que ce soit, le flux de la multitude sortant de la rame ; flux qui s’étalait d’abord en nappe, sur le quai et, se décompressant, se «…

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "redevenait"?
"redevenait" is spelled R-E-D-E-V-E-N-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.də.və.nɛ\.
What does "redevenait" mean?
As a verb, "redevenait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de redevenir.
How do you pronounce "redevenait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "redevenait" is \ʁə.də.və.nɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "redevenait", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list