dégénérer
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#27,785
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
dégénérer is aFrenchverb. It means: Perdre les qualités naturelles de sa race, de son espèce. Pronounced \de.ʒe.ne.ʁe\. Often confused with dégénérés and dégénéré.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dégénérer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.ʒe.ne.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #27,785 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dégénérer is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.ʒe.ne.ʁe\. Corpus data places it at rank #27,785 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for dégénérer, with forms such as "ddégénérer", "degenerer", and "dgéénérer". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "dégénérés", "dégénéré", "dégénérée", 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 dégénérer, spelled D-É-G-É-N-É-R-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Perdre les qualités naturelles de sa race, de son espèce.
- 2N’avoir pas autant de noblesse, de vertu, de mérite que ceux dont on est sorti, ne pas suivre leurs bons exemples.
- 3Perdre de ses qualités, son mérite, etc.
- 4Changer de bien en mal, de mal en pis, en parlant des choses.
- 5Se dit d’une maladie, lorsqu’elle s’affaiblit et prend un caractère moins grave, et aussi lorsqu’elle se change en une maladie plus violente.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddégénérer,degenerer,dgéénérer,déggénérer,dégnéérer,dégénnérer,dégénréer,dégénéerr,dégénérerr,dégénérre,dégénérrer,dégéénrer,déégnérer,édgénérer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for dégénérer
Misspelling Variants of "dégénérer"
Frequency rank: #27,785 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter D in our French index: