définissons
\de.fi.ni.sɔ̃\
The verdict
“définissons” is uncommon French (frequency #69,782 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,782
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de définir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-definissons · définissons · French
définissons · rank #69,782 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,782
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH défenderesse
Nearest frequency peer: défenderesse (-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 « définissons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- défaisant
défaisant
30,221 corpus weight
- défenderesse
défenderesse
30,220 corpus weight
- définissons
définissons
30,219 corpus weight
- dégrisement
dégrisement
30,218 corpus weight
- délateur
délateur
30,217 corpus weight
- délié
délié
30,216 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « définissons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | définissons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.fi.ni.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #69,782 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « définissons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
définissons is uncommon French at frequency #69,782 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.fi.ni.sɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for définissons, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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 entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is définissons, spelled D-É-F-I-N-I-S-S-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de définir.
- 2Première personne du pluriel de l’impératif de définir.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).