dénichée
\de.ni.ʃe\
The verdict
“dénichée” is uncommon French (frequency #95,837 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,837
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de dénicher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-denichee · dénichée · French
dénichée · rank #95,837 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,837
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH démise
Nearest frequency peer: démise (-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 « dénichée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- délayer
délayer
4,167 corpus weight
- démise
démise
4,165 corpus weight
- dénichée
dénichée
4,164 corpus weight
- déplaisants
déplaisants
4,163 corpus weight
- déroulez
déroulez
4,162 corpus weight
- désarticulé
désarticulé
4,161 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dénichée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dénichée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.ni.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #95,837 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dénichée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dénichée is uncommon French at frequency #95,837 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.ni.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de dénicher.".
dénichée has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is dénichée, spelled D-É-N-I-C-H-É-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier 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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