reflétaient
\ʁə.fle.tɛ\
The verdict
“reflétaient” is uncommon French (frequency #70,155 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,155
- 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 refléter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-refletaient · reflétaient · French
reflétaient · rank #70,155 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,155
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH relâchant
Nearest frequency peer: relâchant (+3 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 « reflétaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rassurait
rassurait
29,852 corpus weight
- redstone
redstone
29,850 corpus weight
- reflétaient
reflétaient
29,846 corpus weight
- relâchant
relâchant
29,843 corpus weight
- Rendezvous
Rendezvous
29,842 corpus weight
- renflement
renflement
29,841 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « reflétaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reflétaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.fle.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #70,155 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « reflétaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
reflétaient is uncommon French at frequency #70,155 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.fle.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de refléter.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for reflétaient, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is reflétaient, spelled R-E-F-L-É-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de refléter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how reflétaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils parvinrent à Gibraltar le jeudi, à la nuit seulement, car ils avaient réduit la vitesse dès neuf heures du matin, à la hauteur de Cadix encadrée par ses forts aux deux extrémités de la baie et dont les « miradores » reflétaient les âpres feux du ciel.
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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