déformant
\de.fɔʁ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“déformant” is uncommon French (frequency #52,634 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,634
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui modifie la forme de quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deformant · déformant · French
déformant · rank #52,634 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,634
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déduits
Nearest frequency peer: déduits (-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 « déformant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- déboussolé
déboussolé
47,370 corpus weight
- décidai
décidai
47,369 corpus weight
- déduits
déduits
47,368 corpus weight
- déformant
déformant
47,367 corpus weight
- défrichement
défrichement
47,366 corpus weight
- délabrée
délabrée
47,365 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « déformant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | déformant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.fɔʁ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,634 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « déformant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
déformant is uncommon French at frequency #52,634 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \de.fɔʁ.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for déformant in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is déformant, spelled D-É-F-O-R-M-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui modifie la forme de quelque chose.
- 2Qui altère la réalité ou sa nature.
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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