défendeurs
\de.fɑ̃.dœʁ\
The verdict
“défendeurs” is uncommon French (frequency #52,020 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,020
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de défendeur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-defendeurs · défendeurs · French
défendeurs · rank #52,020 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,020
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH découragée
Nearest frequency peer: découragée (-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 « défendeurs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- délimités
délimités
47,978 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « défendeurs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | défendeurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.fɑ̃.dœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #52,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « défendeurs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
défendeurs is uncommon French at frequency #52,020 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.fɑ̃.dœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de défendeur.".
No misspelling variants are generated for défendeurs in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is défendeurs, spelled D-É-F-E-N-D-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de défendeur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how défendeurs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour chaque cas pénal ou civil à traiter, un certain nombre de jurés seraient tirés au sort sur l’ensemble des experts-jurés appartenant à la profession du ou des plaignants, et un nombre égal sur l’ensemble des individus relevant de la même profession que le ou les défendeurs.
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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