délégitimation
\de.le.ʒi.ti.ma.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“délégitimation” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Suppression d’une légitimité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-delegitimation · délégitimation · French
délégitimation · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-7 7 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 | délégitimation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.le.ʒi.ti.ma.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
délégitimation is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.le.ʒi.ti.ma.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Suppression d’une légitimité.".
Zero misspellings are on record for délégitimation in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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. The correct French form is délégitimation, spelled D-É-L-É-G-I-T-I-M-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Suppression d’une légitimité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how délégitimation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On peut même parler d’une accélération du processus de décomposition, l’administration Bush semblant appliquer méthodiquement un programme de délégitimation et de destruction du système stratégique américain.
« Voilà où mène le complotisme, la délégitimation d’un président démocratiquement élu », a dénoncé l’eurodéputé macroniste Stéphane Séjourné.
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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.