remontaient
\ʁə.mɔ̃.tɛ\
The verdict
“remontaient” is uncommon French (frequency #55,560 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,560
- 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 remonter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-remontaient · remontaient · French
remontaient · rank #55,560 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,560
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH remington
Nearest frequency peer: remington (-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 « remontaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- relayeur
relayeur
44,444 corpus weight
- remakes
remakes
44,443 corpus weight
- remington
remington
44,442 corpus weight
- remontaient
remontaient
44,441 corpus weight
- renverra
renverra
44,439 corpus weight
- retweeté
retweeté
44,438 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « remontaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | remontaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.mɔ̃.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #55,560 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « remontaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
remontaient is uncommon French at frequency #55,560 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.mɔ̃.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de remonter.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for remontaient in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is remontaient, spelled R-E-M-O-N-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de remonter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how remontaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sidoine Apollinaire rapporte que les navires espagnols remontaient le Tibre et allaient porter à Rome la céraunia ou pierre à feu qui faisait alors l’objet d’un trafic important.
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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