redoutaient
\ʁə.du.tɛ\
The verdict
“redoutaient” is uncommon French (frequency #59,581 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,581
- 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 redouter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-redoutaient · redoutaient · French
redoutaient · rank #59,581 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,581
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH recoupements
Nearest frequency peer: recoupements (-2 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 « redoutaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ravioli
ravioli
40,425 corpus weight
- rayonnent
rayonnent
40,424 corpus weight
- recoupements
recoupements
40,422 corpus weight
- redoutaient
redoutaient
40,420 corpus weight
- regrettée
regrettée
40,418 corpus weight
- Reinhart
Reinhart
40,416 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « redoutaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | redoutaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.du.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #59,581 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « redoutaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
redoutaient is uncommon French at frequency #59,581 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.du.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de redouter.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for redoutaient in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is redoutaient, spelled R-E-D-O-U-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de redouter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how redoutaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cet unique témoin qu’ils redoutaient, ils auraient voulu le conquérir, se l’attacher par des liens d’une fraternité si étroite, qu’il ne trouvât plus le courage de parler contre eux.
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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