déchiqueter
\de.ʃik.te\
The verdict
“déchiqueter” is uncommon French (frequency #81,969 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,969
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tailler menu, découper en faisant diverses taillades.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dechiqueter · déchiqueter · French
déchiqueter · rank #81,969 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,969
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déclarative
Nearest frequency peer: déclarative (+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 « déchiqueter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Durfort
Durfort
18,035 corpus weight
- duveteux
duveteux
18,034 corpus weight
- déchiqueter
déchiqueter
18,032 corpus weight
- déclarative
déclarative
18,031 corpus weight
- décollera
décollera
18,030 corpus weight
- dédicacés
dédicacés
18,029 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « déchiqueter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | déchiqueter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.ʃik.te\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #81,969 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « déchiqueter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
déchiqueter is uncommon French at frequency #81,969 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.ʃik.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for déchiqueter in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is déchiqueter, spelled D-É-C-H-I-Q-U-E-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Tailler menu, découper en faisant diverses taillades.
- 2Découper avec maladresse.
- 3Critiquer très durement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how déchiqueter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son pied gauche, dont l'orteil rongeait la chaussette dix fois raccommodée, déchiquetant les mailles et creusant sa trouée, le faisait souffrir cruellement.
Déchiqueter la peau. - Déchiqueter la chair.
This word in other languages
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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).