déféquer
\de.fe.ke\
The verdict
“déféquer” is uncommon French (frequency #78,360 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,360
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre claire une liqueur, en la dégageant de ses impuretés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-defequer · déféquer · French
déféquer · rank #78,360 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,360
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dédit
Nearest frequency peer: dédit (-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 « déféquer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- déchristian…
déchristianisation
21,644 corpus weight
- décontractés
décontractés
21,643 corpus weight
- dédit
dédit
21,642 corpus weight
- déféquer
déféquer
21,641 corpus weight
- déjeunent
déjeunent
21,640 corpus weight
- délectable
délectable
21,639 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « déféquer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | déféquer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.fe.ke\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #78,360 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « déféquer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
déféquer is uncommon French at frequency #78,360 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.fe.ke\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rendre claire une liqueur, en la dégageant de ses impuretés.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for déféquer, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is déféquer, spelled D-É-F-É-Q-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre claire une liqueur, en la dégageant de ses impuretés.
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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