déconcerter
\de.kɔ̃.sɛʁ.te\
The verdict
“déconcerter” is uncommon French (frequency #90,656 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,656
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Déranger l’accord, troubler l’harmonie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deconcerter · déconcerter · French
déconcerter · rank #90,656 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,656
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH décrirais
Nearest frequency peer: décrirais (+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 « déconcerter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- déchirez
déchirez
9,348 corpus weight
- déclaratives
déclaratives
9,347 corpus weight
- déconcerter
déconcerter
9,345 corpus weight
- décrirais
décrirais
9,344 corpus weight
- dégageaient
dégageaient
9,343 corpus weight
- dégrèvements
dégrèvements
9,342 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « déconcerter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | déconcerter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.kɔ̃.sɛʁ.te\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #90,656 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « déconcerter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
déconcerter is uncommon French at frequency #90,656 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.kɔ̃.sɛʁ.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for déconcerter in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is déconcerter, spelled D-É-C-O-N-C-E-R-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Déranger l’accord, troubler l’harmonie.
- 2Troubler quelqu’un en rompant ses mesures, en l’arrêtant dans l’exécution de ses projets.
- 3Troubler quelqu’un en lui faisant perdre contenance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how déconcerter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette victoire déconcerta les alliés. - Les ennemis furent déconcertés de cette alliance.
Un malentendu existe entre lui et les simples mortels. […]. Il arbore superbement un scepticisme, un snobisme de décadence qui leur reste inaccessible et fermé. Son ironie naturelle les gène et les déconcerte. Il est ennuyé, blasé ; […].
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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