résistaient
\ʁe.zis.tɛ\
The verdict
“résistaient” is uncommon French (frequency #85,250 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,250
- 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 résister.
Corpus desk
Index FR-resistaient · résistaient · French
résistaient · rank #85,250 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,250
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH réquisitionnée
Nearest frequency peer: réquisitionnée (-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 « résistaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rémanence
rémanence
14,754 corpus weight
- réquisition…
réquisitionnée
14,752 corpus weight
- résistaient
résistaient
14,751 corpus weight
- résonateur
résonateur
14,750 corpus weight
- sablée
sablée
14,748 corpus weight
- sacramentel…
sacramentelle
14,747 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « résistaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | résistaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.zis.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #85,250 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « résistaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
résistaient is uncommon French at frequency #85,250 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁe.zis.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de résister.".
résistaient has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists 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 résistaient, spelled R-É-S-I-S-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de résister.
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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