dégouter
\de.ɡu.te\
The verdict
“dégouter” is uncommon French (frequency #69,020 among 404,891 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,020
- frequency rank, French
- 404,891
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Priver d’appétit.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dégouter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.ɡu.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dégouter” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
dégouter is uncommon French at frequency #69,020 among 404,891 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.ɡu.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for dégouter in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 dégouter, spelled D-É-G-O-U-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Priver d’appétit.
- 2Inspirer de la répugnance pour quelque aliment.
- 3Inspirer de l’aversion pour une personne, pour une chose ; faire qu’on cesse de trouver une personne, une chose à son gré.
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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Using “dégouter”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-É-G-O-U-T-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \de.ɡu.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.