survivaient
\syʁ.vi.vɛ\
The verdict
“survivaient” is uncommon French (frequency #98,538 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,538
- 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 survivre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-survivaient · survivaient · French
survivaient · rank #98,538 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,538
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surenchérit
Nearest frequency peer: surenchérit (-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 « survivaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- supris
supris
1,466 corpus weight
- Supélec
Supélec
1,465 corpus weight
- surenchérit
surenchérit
1,464 corpus weight
- survivaient
survivaient
1,463 corpus weight
- Suzan
Suzan
1,462 corpus weight
- sweep
sweep
1,460 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « survivaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | survivaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \syʁ.vi.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #98,538 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « survivaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
survivaient is uncommon French at frequency #98,538 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \syʁ.vi.vɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de survivre.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for survivaient, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 survivaient, spelled S-U-R-V-I-V-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de survivre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how survivaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Réfugiés dans les bois, ils survivaient parfois quelques saisons de la nourriture que leur portaient les femmes avant d’être « manchotés » (d’avoir le bras coupé) par les commandeurs.
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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