dégourdir
\de.ɡuʁ.diʁ\
The verdict
“dégourdir” is uncommon French (frequency #55,901 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,901
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire sortir de l’engourdissement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-degourdir · dégourdir · French
dégourdir · rank #55,901 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,901
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dégoulinant
Nearest frequency peer: dégoulinant (-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 « dégourdir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- déférence
déférence
44,103 corpus weight
- dégagements
dégagements
44,102 corpus weight
- dégoulinant
dégoulinant
44,101 corpus weight
- dégourdir
dégourdir
44,100 corpus weight
- déguerpir
déguerpir
44,099 corpus weight
- déjoue
déjoue
44,098 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dégourdir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dégourdir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.ɡuʁ.diʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #55,901 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dégourdir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dégourdir is uncommon French at frequency #55,901 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.ɡuʁ.diʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for dégourdir in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is dégourdir, spelled D-É-G-O-U-R-D-I-R.
Definition
- 1Faire sortir de l’engourdissement.
- 2Faire chauffer légèrement de l’eau pour lui ôter sa grande froideur.
- 3Faire réchauffer légèrement l'air d'une habitation.
- 4Débarrasser de la gaucherie, de la timidité ; rendre vif, aisé, hardi.
- 5S'oxygéner, en parlant de vin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dégourdir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il nous fallut attendre la fin de la tempête avant de pouvoir nous dégourdir les jambes sur le volcanique plancher des vaches islandaises.
Nous le secouâmes pour le dégourdir.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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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