débrayer
\de.bʁe.je\
The verdict
“débrayer” is uncommon French (frequency #86,635 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,635
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Supprimer l’action du moteur sur les roues ou sur telle pièce d’une machine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-debrayer · débrayer · French
débrayer · rank #86,635 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,635
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH débitée
Nearest frequency peer: débitée (-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 « débrayer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- durga
durga
13,369 corpus weight
- Dussollier
Dussollier
13,368 corpus weight
- débitée
débitée
13,367 corpus weight
- débrayer
débrayer
13,366 corpus weight
- décapitées
décapitées
13,365 corpus weight
- décerna
décerna
13,364 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « débrayer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | débrayer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.bʁe.je\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,635 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « débrayer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
débrayer is uncommon French at frequency #86,635 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.bʁe.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for débrayer, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 débrayer, spelled D-É-B-R-A-Y-E-R.
Definition
- 1Supprimer l’action du moteur sur les roues ou sur telle pièce d’une machine.
- 2Cesser le travail momentanément.
- 3Trop parler, être indiscret, ne pas savoir tenir sa langue, médire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how débrayer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En général il a avantage à débrayer à fond, et à exécuter ensuite rapidement et nettement le déplacement du levier.
Chaque bobine peut être débrayée et freinée indépendamment l’une de l’autre et chaque bobine sera équipée d’un guide fune.
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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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).