déboussolé
The verdict
“déboussolé” is uncommon French (frequency #52,631 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,631
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Désorienté, perdu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deboussole · déboussolé · French
déboussolé · rank #52,631 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,631
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dutroux
Nearest frequency peer: Dutroux (-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 « déboussolé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- durch
durch
47,372 corpus weight
- Dutroux
Dutroux
47,371 corpus weight
- déboussolé
déboussolé
47,370 corpus weight
- décidai
décidai
47,369 corpus weight
- déduits
déduits
47,368 corpus weight
- déformant
déformant
47,367 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « déboussolé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | déboussolé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #52,631 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « déboussolé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
déboussolé is uncommon French at frequency #52,631 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Désorienté, perdu.".
No misspelling variants are generated for déboussolé in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is déboussolé, spelled D-É-B-O-U-S-S-O-L-É.
Definition
- 1Désorienté, perdu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how déboussolé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D'abord interdit, je me précipitai ensuite vers lui pour l'aider à se relever et à s'asseoir, mais Gérald ne semblait pas comprendre ce qui lui arrivait. Il était hagard, déboussolé.
Je me trouvais à Prague ce jour-là, et rentrai à Paris par le premier vol du matin, après avoir passé la nuit à participer à distance à des émissions de radio et autres entretiens avec une presse déboussolée par l'ampleur inouïe du carnage.
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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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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