dénommer
\de.nɔ.me\
The verdict
“dénommer” is uncommon French (frequency #85,672 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,672
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nommer une personne dans un acte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-denommer · dénommer · French
dénommer · rank #85,672 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,672
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dénaturée
Nearest frequency peer: dénaturée (-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 « dénommer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- démontraient
démontraient
14,332 corpus weight
- dénaturée
dénaturée
14,330 corpus weight
- dénommer
dénommer
14,329 corpus weight
- dépendu
dépendu
14,328 corpus weight
- dépités
dépités
14,327 corpus weight
- déploiera
déploiera
14,326 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dénommer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dénommer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.nɔ.me\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,672 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dénommer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dénommer is uncommon French at frequency #85,672 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.nɔ.me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dénommer, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dénommer, spelled D-É-N-O-M-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nommer une personne dans un acte.
- 2Imposer un nom de choses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dénommer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut dénommer toutes les parties dans un contrat, dans un arrêt.
Il n’est pas dénommé dans l’acte.
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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