débrouilles
\de.bʁuj\
The verdict
“débrouilles” is uncommon French (frequency #52,015 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,015
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de débrouiller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-debrouilles · débrouilles · French
débrouilles · rank #52,015 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,015
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dyslexique
Nearest frequency peer: dyslexique (-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 « débrouilles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dru
dru
47,990 corpus weight
- DUP
DUP
47,989 corpus weight
- dyslexique
dyslexique
47,987 corpus weight
- débrouilles
débrouilles
47,986 corpus weight
- déciderait
déciderait
47,984 corpus weight
- décomposent
décomposent
47,983 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « débrouilles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | débrouilles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.bʁuj\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #52,015 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « débrouilles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
débrouilles is uncommon French at frequency #52,015 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.bʁuj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
débrouilles doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is débrouilles, spelled D-É-B-R-O-U-I-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de débrouiller.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent 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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