déchanter
\de.ʃɑ̃.te\
The verdict
“déchanter” is uncommon French (frequency #59,236 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,236
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rabattre de ses prétentions, de ses espérances, de sa vanité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dechanter · déchanter · French
déchanter · rank #59,236 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,236
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déblaiement
Nearest frequency peer: déblaiement (-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 « déchanter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- duplicata
duplicata
40,768 corpus weight
- déambule
déambule
40,767 corpus weight
- déblaiement
déblaiement
40,766 corpus weight
- déchanter
déchanter
40,765 corpus weight
- dégarni
dégarni
40,764 corpus weight
- déguisent
déguisent
40,763 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « déchanter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | déchanter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.ʃɑ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « déchanter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
déchanter is uncommon French at frequency #59,236 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.ʃɑ̃.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rabattre de ses prétentions, de ses espérances, de sa vanité.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for déchanter, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is déchanter, spelled D-É-C-H-A-N-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rabattre de ses prétentions, de ses espérances, de sa vanité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how déchanter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il possédait évidemment l’attrait de la nouveauté, et je savais que je m’emballais vite, quitte parfois à déchanter rapidement.
Les griots de la nouvelle économie ont déchanté. La hausse continue des marchés boursiers a laissé place à un effondrement spectaculaire.
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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