dégagé
The verdict
“dégagé” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #9,648 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #9,648
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Qualifie une allure, une démarche qui semble n'être pas gênée par quoi que ce soit.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dégagé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.ɡa.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dégagé” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dégagé is 6 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.ɡa.ʒe\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,648 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for dégagé, with forms such as "ddégagé", "degage", and "dgéagé". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "degré", "dégât", "degas", 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 dégagé, spelled D-É-G-A-G-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qualifie une allure, une démarche qui semble n'être pas gênée par quoi que ce soit.
- 2Qualifie une taille qui valorise la personne.
- 3Qualifie un ton, des airs, un peu trop libres.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddégagé,degage,dgéagé,déaggé,dégaggé,dégaég,déggagé,déggaé,édgagé
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dégagé - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "dégagé"
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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PlainSpell, “dégagé, French word data” (May 6, 2026). Derived from Wiktionary (kaikki.org, CC BY-SA) and an open word-frequency list. https://plainspell.com/fr/mot/degage
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Using “dégagé”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-É-G-A-G-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \de.ɡa.ʒe\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “degré” - see the side-by-side comparison. dégagé vs degré
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Nearby French words
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