signaient
\si.ɲɛ\
The verdict
“signaient” is uncommon French (frequency #75,232 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,232
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de signer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-signaient · signaient · French
signaient · rank #75,232 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,232
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH signet
Nearest frequency peer: signet (+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 « signaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- shekels
shekels
24,774 corpus weight
- shemale
shemale
24,773 corpus weight
- signaient
signaient
24,769 corpus weight
- signet
signet
24,768 corpus weight
- simagrées
simagrées
24,767 corpus weight
- Simeoni
Simeoni
24,765 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « signaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | signaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \si.ɲɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,232 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « signaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
signaient is uncommon French at frequency #75,232 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \si.ɲɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de signer.".
signaient doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is signaient, spelled S-I-G-N-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de signer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how signaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les nuits d’hiver, quand le vent soufflait, entre-choquant les nuages, on entendait le galop endiablé d’un coursier, accompagné de cris d’âmes en peine, et les villageois terrifiés se signaient, en murmurant « Voilà Messire Renorche qui chevauche ».
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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