saisissait
\se.zi.sɛ\
The verdict
“saisissait” is uncommon French (frequency #76,107 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,107
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de saisir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-saisissait · saisissait · French
saisissait · rank #76,107 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,107
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH salary
Nearest frequency peer: salary (+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 « saisissait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sabo
sabo
23,898 corpus weight
- sabordé
sabordé
23,897 corpus weight
- safar
safar
23,896 corpus weight
- saisissait
saisissait
23,894 corpus weight
- salary
salary
23,893 corpus weight
- saoulant
saoulant
23,891 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « saisissait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saisissait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \se.zi.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #76,107 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « saisissait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
saisissait is uncommon French at frequency #76,107 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \se.zi.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de saisir.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for saisissait, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is saisissait, spelled S-A-I-S-I-S-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de saisir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how saisissait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais elle qui, toute sa vie, s'était occupée d'enfants, saisissait sans peine leur plaisir de jouer et leurs petits conflits.
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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