trompaient
\tʁɔ̃.pɛ\
The verdict
“trompaient” is uncommon French (frequency #80,734 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,734
- 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 tromper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trompaient · trompaient · French
trompaient · rank #80,734 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,734
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH triplettes
Nearest frequency peer: triplettes (-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 « trompaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- trempent
trempent
19,271 corpus weight
- trinitaires
trinitaires
19,269 corpus weight
- triplettes
triplettes
19,268 corpus weight
- trompaient
trompaient
19,267 corpus weight
- trophiques
trophiques
19,266 corpus weight
- trottait
trottait
19,265 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « trompaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trompaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁɔ̃.pɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #80,734 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « trompaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
trompaient is uncommon French at frequency #80,734 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tʁɔ̃.pɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de tromper.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for trompaient in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is trompaient, spelled T-R-O-M-P-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de tromper.
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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