déniche
\de.niʃ\
The verdict
“déniche” is uncommon French (frequency #59,969 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,969
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de dénicher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deniche · déniche · French
déniche · rank #59,969 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,969
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH délimitant
Nearest frequency peer: délimitant (-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 « déniche »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dégradante
dégradante
40,035 corpus weight
- délecter
délecter
40,034 corpus weight
- délimitant
délimitant
40,033 corpus weight
- déniche
déniche
40,032 corpus weight
- dépensier
dépensier
40,031 corpus weight
- désabusée
désabusée
40,030 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « déniche » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | déniche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.niʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,969 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « déniche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
déniche is uncommon French at frequency #59,969 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.niʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for déniche in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 déniche, spelled D-É-N-I-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de dénicher.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de dénicher.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de dénicher.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de dénicher.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de dénicher.
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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