deject
/dɪˈdʒɛkt/
"deject" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“deject” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Make sad or dispirited.
Corpus desk
Index EN-deject · deject · English
deject · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | deject |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dɪˈdʒɛkt/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “deject” in English
Rare enough to double-check
deject is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed /dɪˈdʒɛkt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for deject in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Old French dejeter, from Latin dēiectus, past participle of dēicere (“to throw down”), from dē- (“from, down from”) + iacere (“to throw”). The correct English form is deject, spelled D-E-J-E-C-T.
Definition
- 1Make sad or dispirited.
- 2To cast downward.
- 3To debase or humble.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how deject appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] the Thoughts of my Friends, and native Country, and the Improbability of ever seeing them again, made me very melancholy; and dejected me to that Degree, that sometimes I could not forbear indulging my Grief in private, and bursting out into a Flood of Tears.
On the other hand, there is nothing which dejects school children quite so much as failure.
Etymology
From Old French dejeter, from Latin dēiectus, past participle of dēicere (“to throw down”), from dē- (“from, down from”) + iacere (“to throw”).
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.