délégitimer

\de.le.ʒi.ti.me\

/\de.le.ʒi.ti.me\/ verb

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « délégitimer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for délégitimer
PropertyValue
Headworddélégitimer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\de.le.ʒi.ti.me\
Letters11
Frequency rank#90,661
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « délégitimer » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.délégitimertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « déliés » (#90,660), « démarres » (#90,662), « dégrèvements » (#90,659). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « délégitimer » est au #90,661. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Enlever son caractère légitime à.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how délégitimer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Une tâche fantastique à remplir, c'est de délégitimer la logique dominante.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "délégitimer"?
"délégitimer" is spelled D-É-L-É-G-I-T-I-M-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \de.le.ʒi.ti.me\.
What does "délégitimer" mean?
As a verb, "délégitimer" means: Enlever son caractère légitime à.
How do you pronounce "délégitimer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "délégitimer" is \de.le.ʒi.ti.me\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "délégitimer", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list