débrouillait
\de.bʁu.jɛ\
The verdict
“débrouillait” is uncommon French (frequency #82,882 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,882
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de débrouiller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-debrouillait · débrouillait · French
débrouillait · rank #82,882 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,882
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déboussolés
Nearest frequency peer: déboussolés (-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 « débrouillait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dysfonction…
dysfonctionnel
17,122 corpus weight
- débecte
débecte
17,121 corpus weight
- déboussolés
déboussolés
17,120 corpus weight
- débrouillait
débrouillait
17,119 corpus weight
- déciderons
déciderons
17,118 corpus weight
- décloisonne…
décloisonnement
17,117 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « débrouillait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | débrouillait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.bʁu.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #82,882 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « débrouillait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
débrouillait is uncommon French at frequency #82,882 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.bʁu.jɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de débrouiller.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for débrouillait, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 débrouillait, spelled D-É-B-R-O-U-I-L-L-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de débrouiller.
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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).