soupçonnaient
\sup.sɔ.nɛ\
The verdict
“soupçonnaient” is uncommon French (frequency #71,922 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,922
- 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 soupçonner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soupconnaient · soupçonnaient · French
soupçonnaient · rank #71,922 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,922
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soigneuse
Nearest frequency peer: soigneuse (-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 « soupçonnaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sistema
sistema
28,082 corpus weight
- sociocultur…
socioculturels
28,081 corpus weight
- soigneuse
soigneuse
28,080 corpus weight
- soupçonnaie…
soupçonnaient
28,079 corpus weight
- spectra
spectra
28,078 corpus weight
- stewards
stewards
28,076 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « soupçonnaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soupçonnaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sup.sɔ.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #71,922 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « soupçonnaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
soupçonnaient is uncommon French at frequency #71,922 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sup.sɔ.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de soupçonner.".
soupçonnaient doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 soupçonnaient, spelled S-O-U-P-Ç-O-N-N-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de soupçonner.
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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