traînais
\tʁe.nɛ\
The verdict
“traînais” is uncommon French (frequency #65,584 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,584
- 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 traîner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trainais · traînais · French
traînais · rank #65,584 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,584
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH translations
Nearest frequency peer: translations (-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 « traînais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- traiterait
traiterait
34,420 corpus weight
- transférez
transférez
34,419 corpus weight
- translations
translations
34,418 corpus weight
- traînais
traînais
34,417 corpus weight
- triches
triches
34,416 corpus weight
- tridimensio…
tridimensionnelle
34,415 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « traînais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | traînais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁe.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,584 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « traînais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
traînais is uncommon French at frequency #65,584 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tʁe.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for traînais, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is traînais, spelled T-R-A-Î-N-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de traîner.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de traîner.
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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