dégouter
\de.ɡu.te\
The verdict
“dégouter” is uncommon French (frequency #69,020 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,020
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Priver d’appétit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-degouter · dégouter · French
dégouter · rank #69,020 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,020
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déférée
Nearest frequency peer: déférée (-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 « dégouter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- décrassage
décrassage
30,984 corpus weight
- déduisent
déduisent
30,983 corpus weight
- déférée
déférée
30,982 corpus weight
- dégouter
dégouter
30,981 corpus weight
- dématériali…
dématérialisés
30,980 corpus weight
- démographe
démographe
30,979 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dégouter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « dégouter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dégouter is uncommon French at frequency #69,020 among 5,307 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dégouter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si vous lui donnez tant à manger, vous le dégouterez.
Ils m’ont dégouté du poisson, à force de m’en faire manger.
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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