dénégation
\de.ne.ɡa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“dénégation” is uncommon French (frequency #67,467 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,467
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de dénier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-denegation · dénégation · French
dénégation · rank #67,467 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,467
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH défrayer
Nearest frequency peer: défrayer (-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 « dénégation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dédia
dédia
32,537 corpus weight
- défendrons
défendrons
32,536 corpus weight
- défrayer
défrayer
32,535 corpus weight
- dénégation
dénégation
32,534 corpus weight
- déphasage
déphasage
32,533 corpus weight
- dépressives
dépressives
32,532 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dénégation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dénégation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.ne.ɡa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #67,467 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dénégation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dénégation is uncommon French at frequency #67,467 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.ne.ɡa.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
dénégation has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dénégation, spelled D-É-N-É-G-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de dénier.
- 2Déclaration par laquelle une personne soutient qu’un fait avancé par une autre n’est pas véritable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dénégation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Malgré toutes ses dénégations, on le croit l’auteur de ce livre.
Freud permet, d'une certaine façon, d'échapper au dualisme négation/affirmation, par la notion de « dénégation ».
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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