déferlent
\de.fɛʁl\
The verdict
“déferlent” is uncommon French (frequency #61,473 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,473
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de déferler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deferlent · déferlent · French
déferlent · rank #61,473 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,473
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH défendrait
Nearest frequency peer: défendrait (-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 « déferlent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- défavorisée
défavorisée
38,530 corpus weight
- défendrait
défendrait
38,529 corpus weight
- déferlent
déferlent
38,528 corpus weight
- déferler
déferler
38,527 corpus weight
- défouloir
défouloir
38,526 corpus weight
- dégoûtent
dégoûtent
38,525 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « déferlent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | déferlent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.fɛʁl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,473 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « déferlent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
déferlent is uncommon French at frequency #61,473 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.fɛʁl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
déferlent has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 déferlent, spelled D-É-F-E-R-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de déferler.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de déferler.
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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