Déjanire
\de.ʒa.niʁ\
The verdict
“Déjanire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dernière épouse mortelle d’Héraclès.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dejanire · Déjanire · French
Déjanire · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | Déjanire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \de.ʒa.niʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
Déjanire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \de.ʒa.niʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Déjanire has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Déjanire, spelled D-É-J-A-N-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Dernière épouse mortelle d’Héraclès.
- 2157ᵉ astéroïde, découvert en décembre 1875 par Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Déjanire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorenzo. – Par le Ciel ! quel homme de cire suis-je donc ? Le vice, comme la robe de Déjanire, s’est-il si profondément incorporé à mes fibres, que je ne puisse plus répondre de ma langue, et que l’air qui sort de mes lèvres se fasse ruffian malgré moi ?
Hercule devint ensuite éperdument amoureux de Déjanire. Cette princesse avait été fiancée au fleuve Achéloüs.
This word in other languages
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.