rongeait
\ʁɔ̃.ʒɛ\
The verdict
“rongeait” is uncommon French (frequency #65,474 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,474
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de ronger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rongeait · rongeait · French
rongeait · rank #65,474 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,474
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ronin
Nearest frequency peer: ronin (+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 « rongeait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Robuchon
Robuchon
34,530 corpus weight
- roig
roig
34,529 corpus weight
- rongeait
rongeait
34,527 corpus weight
- ronin
ronin
34,526 corpus weight
- ronronnement
ronronnement
34,525 corpus weight
- Rosenfeld
Rosenfeld
34,524 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rongeait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rongeait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɔ̃.ʒɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,474 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rongeait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rongeait is uncommon French at frequency #65,474 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁɔ̃.ʒɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de ronger.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rongeait, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is rongeait, spelled R-O-N-G-E-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de ronger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rongeait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Que le faux Espagnol prît l’argent des arrhes, que Lucien élevât l’édifice de sa fortune avec les pierres du tombeau d’Esther, qu’une seule nuit de plaisir coûtât plus ou moins de billets de mille francs au vieux banquier, qu’Europe en extirpât quelques centaines de mille francs par des moyens plus ou moins ingénieux, rien de tout cela n’occupait cette fi…
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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