découragée
\de.ku.ʁa.ʒe\
The verdict
“découragée” is uncommon French (frequency #52,019 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,019
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de découragé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decouragee · découragée · French
découragée · rank #52,019 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,019
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH décomposent
Nearest frequency peer: décomposent (-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 « découragée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- débrouilles
débrouilles
47,986 corpus weight
- déciderait
déciderait
47,984 corpus weight
- décomposent
décomposent
47,983 corpus weight
- découragée
découragée
47,982 corpus weight
- défendeurs
défendeurs
47,981 corpus weight
- déjantée
déjantée
47,979 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « découragée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | découragée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.ku.ʁa.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #52,019 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « découragée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
découragée is uncommon French at frequency #52,019 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \de.ku.ʁa.ʒe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de découragé.".
découragée doesn't appear in our generated misspelling 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, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is découragée, spelled D-É-C-O-U-R-A-G-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de découragé.
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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