suscitaient
\sy.si.tɛ\
The verdict
“suscitaient” is uncommon French (frequency #90,232 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,232
- 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 susciter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-suscitaient · suscitaient · French
suscitaient · rank #90,232 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,232
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surveilleront
Nearest frequency peer: surveilleront (-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 « suscitaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- suppliques
suppliques
9,774 corpus weight
- supraconduc…
supraconducteurs
9,772 corpus weight
- sura
sura
9,771 corpus weight
- surveillero…
surveilleront
9,770 corpus weight
- suscitaient
suscitaient
9,769 corpus weight
- séjournera
séjournera
9,768 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « suscitaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suscitaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sy.si.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #90,232 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « suscitaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
suscitaient is uncommon French at frequency #90,232 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sy.si.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de susciter.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for suscitaient, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 suscitaient, spelled S-U-S-C-I-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de susciter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how suscitaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il s’étonnait aussi de découvrir que ces scandales, qui eussent provoqué la chute de quelque cabinet sous la IVᵉ République — qu’on disait corrompue —, ne suscitaient plus maintenant que quelques éditoriaux de journaleux.
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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