témoignaient
\te.mwa.ɲɛ\
The verdict
“témoignaient” is uncommon French (frequency #69,507 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,507
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de témoigner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-temoignaient · témoignaient · French
témoignaient · rank #69,507 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,507
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH télékinésie
Nearest frequency peer: télékinésie (-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 « témoignaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tâté
tâté
30,497 corpus weight
- téléjournal
téléjournal
30,496 corpus weight
- télékinésie
télékinésie
30,495 corpus weight
- témoignaient
témoignaient
30,494 corpus weight
- unilingues
unilingues
30,492 corpus weight
- Uppsala
Uppsala
30,491 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « témoignaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | témoignaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \te.mwa.ɲɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #69,507 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « témoignaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
témoignaient is uncommon French at frequency #69,507 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \te.mwa.ɲɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de témoigner.".
Zero misspellings are on record for témoignaient in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is témoignaient, spelled T-É-M-O-I-G-N-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de témoigner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how témoignaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’humour, l’inventivité, dont témoignaient les slogans et affiches d’époque, avaient cannibalisé, « bisounoursisé » toutes les effervescences browniennes d’un événement qui charria tout, le meilleur et le pire, ce que charrient toujours les torrentielles bifurcations, fussent-elles régénératrices.
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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