regrettaient
\ʁə.ɡʁɛ.tɛ\
The verdict
“regrettaient” is uncommon French (frequency #99,551 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,551
- 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 regretter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-regrettaient · regrettaient · French
regrettaient · rank #99,551 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,551
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rehaussent
Nearest frequency peer: rehaussent (+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 « regrettaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rectifiées
rectifiées
454 corpus weight
- redresseurs
redresseurs
453 corpus weight
- refermez
refermez
452 corpus weight
- regrettaient
regrettaient
450 corpus weight
- rehaussent
rehaussent
449 corpus weight
- released
released
447 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « regrettaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | regrettaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.ɡʁɛ.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #99,551 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « regrettaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
regrettaient is uncommon French at frequency #99,551 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.ɡʁɛ.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de regretter.".
Zero misspellings are on record for regrettaient in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is regrettaient, spelled R-E-G-R-E-T-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de regretter.
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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