défigurer
\de.fi.ɡy.ʁe\
The verdict
“défigurer” is uncommon French (frequency #58,567 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,567
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre méconnaissable en altérant physiquement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-defigurer · défigurer · French
défigurer · rank #58,567 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,567
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déferle
Nearest frequency peer: déferle (-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 « défigurer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- décrivit
décrivit
41,437 corpus weight
- dédommageme…
dédommagements
41,436 corpus weight
- déferle
déferle
41,435 corpus weight
- défigurer
défigurer
41,434 corpus weight
- démarrera
démarrera
41,433 corpus weight
- démasque
démasque
41,432 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « défigurer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | défigurer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.fi.ɡy.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,567 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « défigurer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
défigurer is uncommon French at frequency #58,567 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.fi.ɡy.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for défigurer in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is défigurer, spelled D-É-F-I-G-U-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre méconnaissable en altérant physiquement.
- 2Dénaturer en changeant la forme ou la figure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how défigurer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Puis je presserai la groseille contre le voile du palais, et je ne serai défigurée ni par des convulsions, ni par une posture ridicule.
La balle n'avait fait qu’érafler la joue et ne devait laisser d'autre trace de son passage qu'une balafre bien placée : une de ces balafres qui ne défigurent pas et qui plaisent aux femmes.
This word in other languages
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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