sillonnaient
\si.jɔ.nɛ\
The verdict
“sillonnaient” is uncommon French (frequency #98,490 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,490
- 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 sillonner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sillonnaient · sillonnaient · French
sillonnaient · rank #98,490 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,490
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH simonie
Nearest frequency peer: simonie (+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 « sillonnaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sibylline
sibylline
1,516 corpus weight
- sierras
sierras
1,514 corpus weight
- sillonnaient
sillonnaient
1,511 corpus weight
- simonie
simonie
1,510 corpus weight
- Singapourie…
Singapouriens
1,508 corpus weight
- singeries
singeries
1,507 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sillonnaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sillonnaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \si.jɔ.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #98,490 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sillonnaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sillonnaient is uncommon French at frequency #98,490 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \si.jɔ.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de sillonner.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sillonnaient, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is sillonnaient, spelled S-I-L-L-O-N-N-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de sillonner.
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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