traversèrent
\tʁa.vɛʁ.sɛʁ\
The verdict
“traversèrent” is uncommon French (frequency #67,938 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,938
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de traverser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-traverserent · traversèrent · French
traversèrent · rank #67,938 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,938
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH transmetteurs
Nearest frequency peer: transmetteurs (-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 « traversèrent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tramait
tramait
32,065 corpus weight
- transmetteu…
transmetteurs
32,064 corpus weight
- traversèrent
traversèrent
32,063 corpus weight
- triomphera
triomphera
32,062 corpus weight
- triplette
triplette
32,061 corpus weight
- trojan
trojan
32,060 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « traversèrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | traversèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁa.vɛʁ.sɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #67,938 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « traversèrent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
traversèrent is uncommon French at frequency #67,938 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tʁa.vɛʁ.sɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de traverser.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for traversèrent, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 traversèrent, spelled T-R-A-V-E-R-S-È-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de traverser.
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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