tordait

\tɔʁ.dɛ\

/\tɔʁ.dɛ\/ verb

The verdict

“tordait” is uncommon French (frequency #98,572 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#98,572
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de tordre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tordait · tordait · French

tordait · rank #98,572 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #98,572
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH tonneliers

Nearest frequency peer: tonneliers (-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 « tordait »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tordait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for tordait
PropertyValue
Headwordtordait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\tɔʁ.dɛ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#98,572
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « tordait » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.tordaittombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « tonneliers » (#98,571), « torrente » (#98,573), « tolérons » (#98,570). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tordait » est au #98,572. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

tordait is uncommon French at frequency #98,572 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tɔʁ.dɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de tordre.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tordait, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tordait, spelled T-O-R-D-A-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de tordre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how tordait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Socquard, alcide de naissance, pouvait porter onze cents pesant ; son coup de poing, appliqué dans le dos d’un homme, lui cassait net la colonne vertébrale ; il tordait une barre de fer, il arrêtait une voiture attelée d’un cheval.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tordait"?
"tordait" is spelled T-O-R-D-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \tɔʁ.dɛ\.
What does "tordait" mean?
As a verb, "tordait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de tordre.
How do you pronounce "tordait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tordait" is \tɔʁ.dɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tordait" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tordait", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list