délégitimer
\de.le.ʒi.ti.me\
The verdict
“délégitimer” is uncommon French (frequency #90,661 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,661
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enlever son caractère légitime à.
Corpus desk
Index FR-delegitimer · délégitimer · French
délégitimer · rank #90,661 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,661
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déliés
Nearest frequency peer: déliés (-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 « délégitimer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dégageaient
dégageaient
9,343 corpus weight
- dégrèvements
dégrèvements
9,342 corpus weight
- déliés
déliés
9,341 corpus weight
- délégitimer
délégitimer
9,340 corpus weight
- démarres
démarres
9,339 corpus weight
- dépolitisat…
dépolitisation
9,337 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « délégitimer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | délégitimer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.le.ʒi.ti.me\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #90,661 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « délégitimer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
délégitimer is uncommon French at frequency #90,661 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.le.ʒi.ti.me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Enlever son caractère légitime à.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for délégitimer, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented 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 délégitimer, spelled D-É-L-É-G-I-T-I-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Enlever son caractère légitime à.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how délégitimer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une tâche fantastique à remplir, c'est de délégitimer la logique dominante.
En Haïti comme dans bon nombre de pays d'Afrique, le pentecôtisme dans son fonctionnement discursif ne vient pas délégitimer une langue politique constituée en système.
Synonyms
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); 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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