débattons
\de.ba.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“débattons” is uncommon French (frequency #87,555 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,555
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de débattre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-debattons · débattons · French
débattons · rank #87,555 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,555
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH durcissant
Nearest frequency peer: durcissant (-2 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 « débattons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Duperré
Duperré
12,449 corpus weight
- durcissant
durcissant
12,448 corpus weight
- débattons
débattons
12,446 corpus weight
- décoiffer
décoiffer
12,443 corpus weight
- décollant
décollant
12,442 corpus weight
- décolorés
décolorés
12,441 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « débattons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | débattons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.ba.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,555 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « débattons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
débattons is uncommon French at frequency #87,555 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.ba.tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
débattons has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is débattons, spelled D-É-B-A-T-T-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de débattre.
- 2Première personne du pluriel de l’impératif de débattre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how débattons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors, débattons.
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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