dégraisser
\de.ɡʁe.se\
The verdict
“dégraisser” is an uncommon French word, ranked #64,396 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #64,396
- frequency rank, French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Débarrasser de sa graisse un animal de boucherie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dégraisser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.ɡʁe.se\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #64,396 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dégraisser” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dégraisser is 10 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.ɡʁe.se\. Corpus data places it at rank #64,396 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.
No misspelling variants are generated for dégraisser in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 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 dégraisser, spelled D-É-G-R-A-I-S-S-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Débarrasser de sa graisse un animal de boucherie.
- 2Produire le mauvais effet que les torrents et les ravines d’eau font sur les terres labourables, en emportant ce qu’il y a de plus propre à les rendre fertiles.
- 3Débarrasser de la couche graisseuse un aliment qu’on fait cuire.
- 4Ôter au vin, au moyen de quelque traitement, la mauvaise qualité qu’il contracte en tournant à la graisse.
- 5Nettoyer ce qui est enduit de matière grasse ou d'hydrocarbures visqueux.
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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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-É-G-R-A-I-S-S-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \de.ɡʁe.se\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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