décongeler
The verdict
“décongeler” is uncommon French (frequency #65,883 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,883
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ramener, par réchauffement progressif, un corps congelé à son état primitif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decongeler · décongeler · French
décongeler · rank #65,883 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,883
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dédaigne
Nearest frequency peer: dédaigne (+2 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 « décongeler »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- déclaratif
déclaratif
34,122 corpus weight
- déclares
déclares
34,121 corpus weight
- décongeler
décongeler
34,118 corpus weight
- dédaigne
dédaigne
34,116 corpus weight
- défaillantes
défaillantes
34,115 corpus weight
- dégeu
dégeu
34,114 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « décongeler » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décongeler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #65,883 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « décongeler » en français
Rare enough to double-check
décongeler is uncommon French at frequency #65,883 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ramener, par réchauffement progressif, un corps congelé à son état primitif.".
décongeler doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 décongeler, spelled D-É-C-O-N-G-E-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Ramener, par réchauffement progressif, un corps congelé à son état primitif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how décongeler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après six mois et plus, en la [la viande] laissant se décongeler lentement à l’air, elle reprend l’aspect, l'élasticité et le goût qu’elle avait à l’origine ; […].
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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