songeais
\sɔ̃.ʒɛ\
The verdict
“songeais” is uncommon French (frequency #63,369 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,369
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de songer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-songeais · songeais · French
songeais · rank #63,369 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,369
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sonata
Nearest frequency peer: sonata (-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 « songeais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sommités
sommités
36,635 corpus weight
- sommée
sommée
36,634 corpus weight
- sonata
sonata
36,633 corpus weight
- songeais
songeais
36,632 corpus weight
- sophiste
sophiste
36,631 corpus weight
- souille
souille
36,630 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « songeais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | songeais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɔ̃.ʒɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,369 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « songeais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
songeais is uncommon French at frequency #63,369 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sɔ̃.ʒɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for songeais in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 songeais, spelled S-O-N-G-E-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de songer.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de songer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how songeais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Donc, aujourd’hui, après le départ de ce pendard (il désignait Manfred), je songeais tout doucement à une foule de choses, et déjà j’échafaudais dans ma tête quelque chapitre bien et dûment philosophé à ajouter au livre de Pantagruel, lorsque… mais que diable sentent donc les casseroles de dame Julie ?
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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