déconcerte
\de.kɔ̃.sɛʁt\
The verdict
“déconcerte” is an uncommon French word, ranked #84,723 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #84,723
- frequency rank, French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de déconcerter.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | déconcerte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.kɔ̃.sɛʁt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #84,723 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “déconcerte” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for déconcerte is 10 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.kɔ̃.sɛʁt\. Corpus data places it at rank #84,723 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
déconcerte has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is déconcerte, spelled D-É-C-O-N-C-E-R-T-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de déconcerter.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de déconcerter.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de déconcerter.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de déconcerter.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de déconcerter.
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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Using “déconcerte”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-É-C-O-N-C-E-R-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \de.kɔ̃.sɛʁt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.