soupirait
\su.pi.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“soupirait” is uncommon French (frequency #96,398 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,398
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de soupirer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-soupirait · soupirait · French
soupirait · rank #96,398 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,398
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH souchet
Nearest frequency peer: souchet (-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 « soupirait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Sontag
Sontag
3,607 corpus weight
- Sopot
Sopot
3,606 corpus weight
- souchet
souchet
3,605 corpus weight
- soupirait
soupirait
3,603 corpus weight
- sphynx
sphynx
3,601 corpus weight
- Stace
Stace
3,600 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « soupirait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soupirait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \su.pi.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #96,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « soupirait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
soupirait is uncommon French at frequency #96,398 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \su.pi.ʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de soupirer.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for soupirait, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is soupirait, spelled S-O-U-P-I-R-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de soupirer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how soupirait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ah ! Quelques aubergines farcies bien dorées ! soupirait-il en s’éventant, une bonne tranche de ménina, un monumental couscous aux boulettes, une pyramide de bricks toutes chaudes avec une larmichette de citron !…
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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