dégueux
\de.ɡø\
The verdict
“dégueux” is uncommon French (frequency #72,273 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,273
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de dégueu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-degueux · dégueux · French
dégueux · rank #72,273 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,273
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH délestage
Nearest frequency peer: délestage (+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 « dégueux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- déconnez
déconnez
27,732 corpus weight
- décrochez
décrochez
27,731 corpus weight
- décroit
décroit
27,730 corpus weight
- dégueux
dégueux
27,728 corpus weight
- délestage
délestage
27,727 corpus weight
- déloyauté
déloyauté
27,725 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dégueux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dégueux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.ɡø\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,273 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dégueux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dégueux is uncommon French at frequency #72,273 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \de.ɡø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de dégueu.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for dégueux, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 dégueux, spelled D-É-G-U-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de dégueu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dégueux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plus on avance, plus il nous arrive de trucs dégueux.
On a jamais essayé les vrais gros porcs dégueux.
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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