tremblaient
\tʁɑ̃.blɛ\
The verdict
“tremblaient” is uncommon French (frequency #63,427 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,427
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de trembler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tremblaient · tremblaient · French
tremblaient · rank #63,427 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,427
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tremplins
Nearest frequency peer: tremplins (+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 « tremblaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- traquée
traquée
36,577 corpus weight
- travaillerez
travaillerez
36,576 corpus weight
- tremblaient
tremblaient
36,574 corpus weight
- tremplins
tremplins
36,573 corpus weight
- tressés
tressés
36,572 corpus weight
- Tréguier
Tréguier
36,571 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tremblaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tremblaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁɑ̃.blɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #63,427 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tremblaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tremblaient is uncommon French at frequency #63,427 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tʁɑ̃.blɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de trembler.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tremblaient, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tremblaient, spelled T-R-E-M-B-L-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de trembler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tremblaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Petit Journal rendait des services inappréciables à Lucien et à Coralie en maintenant le tailleur, la marchande de modes et la couturière, qui tous tremblaient de mécontenter un journaliste capable de tympaniser leurs établissements.
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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