dégénèrent
\de.ʒe.nɛʁ\
The verdict
“dégénèrent” is uncommon French (frequency #53,917 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,917
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de dégénérer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-degenerent · dégénèrent · French
dégénèrent · rank #53,917 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,917
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH démesurés
Nearest frequency peer: démesurés (+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 « dégénèrent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- découvraient
découvraient
46,087 corpus weight
- défendable
défendable
46,086 corpus weight
- dégénèrent
dégénèrent
46,084 corpus weight
- démesurés
démesurés
46,083 corpus weight
- démontrés
démontrés
46,082 corpus weight
- dénoncez
dénoncez
46,081 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dégénèrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dégénèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.ʒe.nɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #53,917 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dégénèrent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dégénèrent is uncommon French at frequency #53,917 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.ʒe.nɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for dégénèrent in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dégénèrent, spelled D-É-G-É-N-È-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de dégénérer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de dégénérer.
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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