degrade
\deˈɣɾa.ðe\
The verdict
“degrade” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de degradar.
Corpus desk
Index FR-degrade · degrade · French
degrade · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | degrade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \deˈɣɾa.ðe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
degrade is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \deˈɣɾa.ðe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for degrade in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is degrade, spelled D-E-G-R-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de degradar.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de degradar.
- 3Troisième personne du singulier de l’impératif de degradar.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.