déférée
\de.fe.ʁe\
The verdict
“déférée” is uncommon French (frequency #69,019 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,019
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe déférer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deferee · déférée · French
déférée · rank #69,019 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,019
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déduisent
Nearest frequency peer: déduisent (-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 « déférée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- découvriras
découvriras
30,985 corpus weight
- décrassage
décrassage
30,984 corpus weight
- déduisent
déduisent
30,983 corpus weight
- déférée
déférée
30,982 corpus weight
- dégouter
dégouter
30,981 corpus weight
- dématériali…
dématérialisés
30,980 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « déférée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | déférée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.fe.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,019 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « déférée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
déférée is uncommon French at frequency #69,019 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.fe.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe déférer.".
déférée has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is déférée, spelled D-É-F-É-R-É-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe déférer.
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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