deplore
/dɪˈploɹ/
"deplore" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“deplore” is uncommon English (frequency #57,334 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,334
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for.
Corpus desk
Index EN-deplore · deplore · English
deplore · rank #57,334 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,334
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH depressingly
Nearest frequency peer: depressingly (+1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “deplore”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- deke
deke
42,671 corpus weight
- deliverable
deliverable
42,670 corpus weight
- Deluca
Deluca
42,669 corpus weight
- deplore
deplore
42,667 corpus weight
- depressingly
depressingly
42,666 corpus weight
- destitution
destitution
42,665 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “deplore” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | deplore |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dɪˈploɹ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,334 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “deplore” in English
Rare enough to double-check
deplore is uncommon English at frequency #57,334 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /dɪˈploɹ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for deplore, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle French déplorer, from Old French deplorer, from Latin dēplōrāre (“to lament over, bewail”), from dē- + plōrāre (“to wail, weep aloud”); origin uncertain. The correct English form is deplore, spelled D-E-P-L-O-R-E.
Definition
- 1To bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for.
- 2To condemn; to express strong disapproval of.
- 3To regard as hopeless; to give up.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how deplore appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I deplore my neighbour for having lost his job.
I deplore not having listened to your advice.
Etymology
From Middle French déplorer, from Old French deplorer, from Latin dēplōrāre (“to lament over, bewail”), from dē- + plōrāre (“to wail, weep aloud”); origin uncertain.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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