défrayé
\de.fʁɛ.je\
The verdict
“défrayé” is uncommon French (frequency #62,938 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,938
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de défrayer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-defraye · défrayé · French
défrayé · rank #62,938 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,938
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH décérébrés
Nearest frequency peer: décérébrés (-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 « défrayé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- déchoir
déchoir
37,066 corpus weight
- décroissants
décroissants
37,065 corpus weight
- décérébrés
décérébrés
37,064 corpus weight
- défrayé
défrayé
37,063 corpus weight
- dégringoler
dégringoler
37,062 corpus weight
- déjoués
déjoués
37,060 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « défrayé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | défrayé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.fʁɛ.je\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,938 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « défrayé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
défrayé is uncommon French at frequency #62,938 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.fʁɛ.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier de défrayer.".
défrayé doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is défrayé, spelled D-É-F-R-A-Y-É.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier de défrayer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how défrayé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’avocat a souvent défrayé la chronique pour les impacts environnementaux et sociétaux que sa culture implique, notamment dans son bastion historique : l’État mexicain du Michoacan.
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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