terminais
\tɛʁ.mi.nɛ\
The verdict
“terminais” is uncommon French (frequency #96,438 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,438
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de terminer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-terminais · terminais · French
terminais · rank #96,438 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,438
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tempura
Nearest frequency peer: tempura (-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 « terminais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tantouze
tantouze
3,567 corpus weight
- taulards
taulards
3,566 corpus weight
- tees
tees
3,565 corpus weight
- tempura
tempura
3,564 corpus weight
- terminais
terminais
3,563 corpus weight
- territorial…
territorialisation
3,562 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « terminais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | terminais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɛʁ.mi.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #96,438 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « terminais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
terminais is uncommon French at frequency #96,438 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tɛʁ.mi.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
terminais has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is terminais, spelled T-E-R-M-I-N-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de terminer.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de terminer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how terminais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je terminais tout juste de lui faire un cunnilingus : une envie post-coïtale d’enfouir mon visage entre ses cuisses.
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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