déchiqueté
\de.ʃi.kə.te\
The verdict
“déchiqueté” is uncommon French (frequency #55,216 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,216
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie une feuille, son limbe, dont le bord a des découpures inégales et profondes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dechiquete · déchiqueté · French
déchiqueté · rank #55,216 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,216
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH débarrassant
Nearest frequency peer: débarrassant (-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 « déchiqueté »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Duvalier
Duvalier
44,788 corpus weight
- dye
dye
44,787 corpus weight
- débarrassant
débarrassant
44,786 corpus weight
- déchiqueté
déchiqueté
44,785 corpus weight
- décime
décime
44,784 corpus weight
- décollement
décollement
44,783 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « déchiqueté » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | déchiqueté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.ʃi.kə.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #55,216 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « déchiqueté » en français
Rare enough to double-check
déchiqueté is uncommon French at frequency #55,216 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \de.ʃi.kə.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
déchiqueté has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is déchiqueté, spelled D-É-C-H-I-Q-U-E-T-É.
Definition
- 1Qualifie une feuille, son limbe, dont le bord a des découpures inégales et profondes.
- 2Démoralisé, secoué, démoli, en pièces.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how déchiqueté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il arrivait qu’une image, une phrase tombée de la bouche aimée laissât Jeanne déchiquetée pendant des jours.
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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