définir
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,991
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
définir is aFrenchverb. It means: Déterminer avec précision. Pronounced \de.fi.niʁ\. It ranks #3,991 in French word frequency. Often confused with devenir and définit.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | définir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.fi.niʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,991 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for définir is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.fi.niʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,991 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for définir, with forms such as "ddéfinir", "definir", and "dféinir". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "devenir", "définit", "deviner", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is définir, spelled D-É-F-I-N-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Déterminer avec précision.
- 2Déterminer avec précision.
- 3Caractériser quelqu’un ou quelque chose.
- 4Donner la (ou les) signification(s) d’un mot, quel sens on y attache.
- 5Assigner une valeur à une variable, généralement après sa déclaration.
- 6Traduire dans un langage naturel une notion mathématique abstraite.
- 7Parce que le travail mathématique consiste pour beaucoup dans ce passage abstrait-compréhensible, ce verbe est devenu un fourre-tout, synonyme de créer, concevoir, supposer, prouver, etc.
- 8Délimiter, circonscrire.
- 9Exprimer son identité, ce que l'on est, la façon dont on se voit.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddéfinir,definir,dféinir,déffinir,défiinr,définirr,définnir,définri,défniir,déifnir,édfinir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for définir
Misspelling Variants of "définir"
Frequency rank: #3,991 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter D in our French index: