dénivellation
\de.ni.vɛ.la.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“dénivellation” is uncommon French (frequency #69,024 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,024
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Différence de niveau, tant physique que symbolique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-denivellation · dénivellation · French
dénivellation · rank #69,024 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,024
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dénigrent
Nearest frequency peer: dénigrent (-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 « dénivellation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dématériali…
dématérialisés
30,980 corpus weight
- démographe
démographe
30,979 corpus weight
- dénigrent
dénigrent
30,978 corpus weight
- dénivellati…
dénivellation
30,977 corpus weight
- dénuder
dénuder
30,976 corpus weight
- déranges
déranges
30,974 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dénivellation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dénivellation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.ni.vɛ.la.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #69,024 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dénivellation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dénivellation is uncommon French at frequency #69,024 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.ni.vɛ.la.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
dénivellation doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dénivellation, spelled D-É-N-I-V-E-L-L-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Différence de niveau, tant physique que symbolique.
- 2Fait de déniveler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dénivellation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au-devant d'elle, la dénivellation de la surface liquide formait comme une sorte de gouffre.
Malgré la pénombre, le père devina une dénivellation plus accentuée, mais la montée, de l’autre côté, ne paraissait pas trop rude.
Antonyms
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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