signalaient
\si.ɲa.lɛ\
The verdict
“signalaient” is uncommon French (frequency #88,097 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,097
- 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 signaler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-signalaient · signalaient · French
signalaient · rank #88,097 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,097
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sigh
Nearest frequency peer: sigh (-2 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 « signalaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- shari
shari
11,908 corpus weight
- SIB
SIB
11,907 corpus weight
- sigh
sigh
11,906 corpus weight
- signalaient
signalaient
11,904 corpus weight
- sigur
sigur
11,902 corpus weight
- sika
sika
11,901 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « signalaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | signalaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \si.ɲa.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #88,097 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « signalaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
signalaient is uncommon French at frequency #88,097 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \si.ɲa.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de signaler.".
Zero misspellings are on record for signalaient in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is signalaient, spelled S-I-G-N-A-L-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de signaler.
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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