débitent
\de.bit\
The verdict
“débitent” is uncommon French (frequency #95,820 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,820
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de débiter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-debitent · débitent · French
débitent · rank #95,820 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,820
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH débitant
Nearest frequency peer: débitant (-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 « débitent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dupliqué
dupliqué
4,184 corpus weight
- durian
durian
4,183 corpus weight
- débitant
débitant
4,182 corpus weight
- débitent
débitent
4,181 corpus weight
- décaissement
décaissement
4,180 corpus weight
- déchaussés
déchaussés
4,179 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « débitent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | débitent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.bit\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #95,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « débitent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
débitent is uncommon French at frequency #95,820 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.bit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for débitent in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is débitent, spelled D-É-B-I-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de débiter.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de débiter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how débitent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pendant le décours de la lune, les bûcherons s’occupent à déhoupper les arbres, à faire des bourrées, scier les tiges dans les longueurs qu’on les veut, former leurs chantiers de bois de chauffage, et fendre les culées ; en même temps, les scieurs de long et les charpentiers débitent les pièces ainsi coupées et préparées par les bûcherons.
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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