regrettais
\ʁə.ɡʁɛ.tɛ\
The verdict
“regrettais” is uncommon French (frequency #77,857 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,857
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de regretter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-regrettais · regrettais · French
regrettais · rank #77,857 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,857
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH refaisant
Nearest frequency peer: refaisant (-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 « regrettais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- reculez
reculez
22,147 corpus weight
- redoutez
redoutez
22,146 corpus weight
- refaisant
refaisant
22,145 corpus weight
- regrettais
regrettais
22,144 corpus weight
- reinette
reinette
22,143 corpus weight
- rejaillir
rejaillir
22,142 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « regrettais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | regrettais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.ɡʁɛ.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,857 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « regrettais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
regrettais is uncommon French at frequency #77,857 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.ɡʁɛ.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for regrettais in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is regrettais, spelled R-E-G-R-E-T-T-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de regretter.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de regretter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how regrettais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chaque fois que je lisais un plaidoyer de Jacqueline de Romilly pour l’enseignement du grec, je regrettais de ne pas avoir appris cette langue ancienne.
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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