tordait
\tɔʁ.dɛ\
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
- tolérons
tolérons
1,431 corpus weight
- tonneliers
tonneliers
1,430 corpus weight
- tordait
tordait
1,429 corpus weight
- torrente
torrente
1,428 corpus weight
- toréador
toréador
1,427 corpus weight
- totémisme
totémisme
1,426 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tordait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tordait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɔʁ.dɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #98,572 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tordait » en français
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
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de tordre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tordait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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