décongestionner
\de.kɔ̃.ʒɛs.tjɔ.ne\
The verdict
“décongestionner” is uncommon French (frequency #93,699 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,699
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Supprimer la congestion de (une partie du corps).
Corpus desk
Index FR-decongestionner · décongestionner · French
décongestionner · rank #93,699 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,699
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déiste
Nearest frequency peer: déiste (+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 « décongestionner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- débriefer
débriefer
6,304 corpus weight
- décongestio…
décongestionner
6,302 corpus weight
- déiste
déiste
6,301 corpus weight
- délectent
délectent
6,300 corpus weight
- délivra
délivra
6,299 corpus weight
- déloyaux
déloyaux
6,298 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « décongestionner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décongestionner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.kɔ̃.ʒɛs.tjɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #93,699 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « décongestionner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
décongestionner is uncommon French at frequency #93,699 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.kɔ̃.ʒɛs.tjɔ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
décongestionner doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 décongestionner, spelled D-É-C-O-N-G-E-S-T-I-O-N-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Supprimer la congestion de (une partie du corps).
- 2Supprimer les encombrements de (une rue, une zone, une ville…).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how décongestionner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
– De l’eau fraîche. Un peu d’eau fraîche, simplement. Ah ! – Ma chère sœur, effectivement, reprend Anthime, l’eau fraîche pourra vous soulager un instant en décongestionnant votre œil ; mais elle n’enlèvera pas le mal.
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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