dédaigneux
\de.dɛ.ɲø\
The verdict
“dédaigneux” is uncommon French (frequency #59,965 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,965
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a ou qui marque du dédain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dedaigneux · dédaigneux · French
dédaigneux · rank #59,965 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,965
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH décevez
Nearest frequency peer: décevez (-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 « dédaigneux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dystopie
dystopie
40,039 corpus weight
- débarquée
débarquée
40,038 corpus weight
- décevez
décevez
40,037 corpus weight
- dédaigneux
dédaigneux
40,036 corpus weight
- dégradante
dégradante
40,035 corpus weight
- délecter
délecter
40,034 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dédaigneux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dédaigneux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.dɛ.ɲø\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #59,965 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dédaigneux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dédaigneux is uncommon French at frequency #59,965 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \de.dɛ.ɲø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a ou qui marque du dédain.".
No misspelling variants are generated for dédaigneux in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dédaigneux, spelled D-É-D-A-I-G-N-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui a ou qui marque du dédain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dédaigneux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ceux-ci, d’ailleurs, un peu hautains et dédaigneux, affectaient souvent de regarder comme indignes d’eux les amusements habituels des gosses.
Il tira une chaise, s'installa à califourchon et son regard fit le tour de la chambre avec une lippe dédaigneuse et apitoyée.
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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