défigurent
\de.fi.ɡyʁ\
The verdict
“défigurent” is uncommon French (frequency #94,731 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,731
- 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 défigurer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-defigurent · défigurent · French
défigurent · rank #94,731 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,731
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH démerdes
Nearest frequency peer: démerdes (+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 « défigurent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- décryptée
décryptée
5,273 corpus weight
- déductibili…
déductibilité
5,272 corpus weight
- défigurent
défigurent
5,270 corpus weight
- démerdes
démerdes
5,269 corpus weight
- dénaturés
dénaturés
5,268 corpus weight
- département…
départementalisation
5,267 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « défigurent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | défigurent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.fi.ɡyʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #94,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « défigurent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
défigurent is uncommon French at frequency #94,731 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.fi.ɡyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for défigurent in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is défigurent, spelled D-É-F-I-G-U-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de défigurer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de défigurer.
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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