défaire
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,691
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
défaire is aFrenchverb. It means: Modifier l’état d’une chose de manière qu’elle ne soit plus ce qu’elle était. Pronounced \de.fɛʁ\. Often confused with défie and défilé.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | défaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.fɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,691 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for défaire is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.fɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,691 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for défaire, with forms such as "ddéfaire", "defaire", and "dféaire". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "défie", "défilé", "défait", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is défaire, spelled D-É-F-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Modifier l’état d’une chose de manière qu’elle ne soit plus ce qu’elle était.
- 2Vider des effets qui s’y trouvent, en parlant de colis ou de paquets.
- 3Ôter, déboutonner, dénouer en parlant de vêtements.
- 4Revenir en arrière ; rebrousser chemin.
- 5Mettre en déroute.
- 6Faire perdre ; faire échouer.
- 7Annuler.
- 8Se délivrer, se débarrasser d’une personne ou d’une chose, en particulier d'un vêtement; se déshabiller.
- 9Congédier, licencier.
- 10Faire mourir.
- 11Se suicider.
- 12Aliéner, en parlant d’une chose ; en transporter le droit et la possession à un autre.
- 13Passer, s'écouler, se succéder.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddéfaire,defaire,dféaire,déafire,défaier,défairre,défarie,déffaire,défiare,édfaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for défaire
Misspelling Variants of "défaire"
Frequency rank: #10,691 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter D in our French index: