découragez
\de.ku.ʁa.ʒe\
The verdict
“découragez” is uncommon French (frequency #77,445 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,445
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de décourager.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decouragez · découragez · French
découragez · rank #77,445 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,445
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH découpez
Nearest frequency peer: découpez (-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 « découragez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- décimées
décimées
22,559 corpus weight
- déclenchait
déclenchait
22,558 corpus weight
- découpez
découpez
22,557 corpus weight
- découragez
découragez
22,556 corpus weight
- décrochée
décrochée
22,555 corpus weight
- dégraissage
dégraissage
22,553 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « découragez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | découragez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.ku.ʁa.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,445 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « découragez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
découragez is uncommon French at frequency #77,445 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.ku.ʁa.ʒe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for découragez in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 découragez, spelled D-É-C-O-U-R-A-G-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de décourager.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de décourager.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how découragez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ne vous découragez pas si vous prenez du retard dans vos projets en cours.
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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