rigolaient
\ʁi.ɡɔ.lɛ\
The verdict
“rigolaient” is uncommon French (frequency #85,228 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,228
- 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 rigoler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rigolaient · rigolaient · French
rigolaient · rank #85,228 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,228
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rhododendron
Nearest frequency peer: rhododendron (-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 « rigolaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- revoyure
revoyure
14,776 corpus weight
- rhinoplastie
rhinoplastie
14,775 corpus weight
- rhododendron
rhododendron
14,774 corpus weight
- rigolaient
rigolaient
14,773 corpus weight
- Riton
Riton
14,772 corpus weight
- rockeurs
rockeurs
14,770 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rigolaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rigolaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁi.ɡɔ.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #85,228 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rigolaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rigolaient is uncommon French at frequency #85,228 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁi.ɡɔ.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rigoler.".
rigolaient has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 rigolaient, spelled R-I-G-O-L-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rigoler.
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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