dénaturation
\de.na.ty.ʁa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“dénaturation” is uncommon French (frequency #80,148 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,148
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de dénaturer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-denaturation · dénaturation · French
dénaturation · rank #80,148 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,148
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH démultiplier
Nearest frequency peer: démultiplier (-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 « dénaturation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- démolisseur
démolisseur
19,856 corpus weight
- démotivation
démotivation
19,855 corpus weight
- démultiplier
démultiplier
19,854 corpus weight
- dénaturation
dénaturation
19,853 corpus weight
- dépénaliser
dépénaliser
19,852 corpus weight
- dérégler
dérégler
19,851 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dénaturation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dénaturation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.na.ty.ʁa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #80,148 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dénaturation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dénaturation is uncommon French at frequency #80,148 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.na.ty.ʁa.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for dénaturation in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists 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 dénaturation, spelled D-É-N-A-T-U-R-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de dénaturer.
- 2Modification de certaines substances pour les rendre impropres à l’alimentation et les réserver à un usage industriel.
- 3Toute action sur les protéines conduisant à la dissociation des liaisons hydrogène.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dénaturation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un réchauffement de la solution est constaté avec les modèles dont le quartz est directement au contact du liquide aérosolisé, d’où un risque de dénaturation de certaines molécules.
- Le christianisme est une dénaturation de la morale de troupeau, sous l'empire de l’aveuglement volontaire et du malentendu le plus absolu.
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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