régnaient
\ʁe.ɲɛ\
The verdict
“régnaient” is uncommon French (frequency #56,241 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,241
- 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 régner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-regnaient · régnaient · French
régnaient · rank #56,241 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,241
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH récupérera
Nearest frequency peer: récupérera (-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 « régnaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- récupérera
récupérera
43,761 corpus weight
- régnaient
régnaient
43,760 corpus weight
- réjouissante
réjouissante
43,759 corpus weight
- répartiteur
répartiteur
43,758 corpus weight
- réquisition…
réquisitionnés
43,757 corpus weight
- résoudrait
résoudrait
43,756 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « régnaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | régnaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.ɲɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,241 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « régnaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
régnaient is uncommon French at frequency #56,241 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁe.ɲɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de régner.".
No misspelling variants are generated for régnaient in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is régnaient, spelled R-É-G-N-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de régner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how régnaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À la boulangerie et à l’hôtellerie, c’était carrément les gitans, les ferrailleux qui régnaient en maîtres.
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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