succédaient
\syk.se.dɛ\
The verdict
“succédaient” is uncommon French (frequency #69,452 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,452
- 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 succéder.
Corpus desk
Index FR-succedaient · succédaient · French
succédaient · rank #69,452 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,452
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH successif
Nearest frequency peer: successif (-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 « succédaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- strawberry
strawberry
30,552 corpus weight
- stringer
stringer
30,551 corpus weight
- successif
successif
30,550 corpus weight
- succédaient
succédaient
30,549 corpus weight
- supporteront
supporteront
30,548 corpus weight
- supranation…
supranationale
30,547 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « succédaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | succédaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \syk.se.dɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #69,452 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « succédaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
succédaient is uncommon French at frequency #69,452 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \syk.se.dɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de succéder.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for succédaient, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 succédaient, spelled S-U-C-C-É-D-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de succéder.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how succédaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aussi bien, mon historiomanie ne dura que deux ou trois ans et fut bientôt supplantée par une passion folle pour le théâtre classique : Molière, Racine, Marivaux étaient devenus plus importants que le monarque le plus auguste, j’achetai une à une toutes les éditions scolaires où les photos de Pierre Dux, d’Hélène Perdrière, de Gérard Philipe ne m’émouvaie…
Les coups de tonnerre se succédaient sans interruption ; la pluie tombait, torrentielle.
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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