utilisèrent
\y.ti.li.zɛʁ\
The verdict
“utilisèrent” is uncommon French (frequency #81,664 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,664
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de utiliser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-utiliserent · utilisèrent · French
utilisèrent · rank #81,664 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,664
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH utilisions
Nearest frequency peer: utilisions (-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 « utilisèrent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tétras
tétras
18,341 corpus weight
- utilisions
utilisions
18,338 corpus weight
- utilisèrent
utilisèrent
18,337 corpus weight
- vacancier
vacancier
18,336 corpus weight
- Valaques
Valaques
18,335 corpus weight
- Vallois
Vallois
18,333 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « utilisèrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | utilisèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \y.ti.li.zɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #81,664 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « utilisèrent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
utilisèrent is uncommon French at frequency #81,664 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \y.ti.li.zɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de utiliser.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for utilisèrent, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is utilisèrent, spelled U-T-I-L-I-S-È-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de utiliser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how utilisèrent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les ouvrières des mines et des salines des Vosges et du Jura utilisèrent ces bénates du XVᵉ au XVIIIᵉ siècle.
Afin de démontrer scientifiquement leur théorie, des scientifiques belges utilisèrent toutes sortes d’instruments de mesure, comme des craniomètres ou des compas anthropométriques, pour mesurer les nez, les fronts, les oreilles, les bras, les tibias, les mâchoires et déduire de ces observations sur l’apparence physique la nature profonde et le caractère d…
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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