dénotent
\de.nɔt\
The verdict
“dénotent” is uncommon French (frequency #64,404 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,404
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de dénoter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-denotent · dénotent · French
dénotent · rank #64,404 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,404
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déménageur
Nearest frequency peer: déménageur (-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 « dénotent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- démembrer
démembrer
35,601 corpus weight
- démenties
démenties
35,600 corpus weight
- déménageur
déménageur
35,598 corpus weight
- dénotent
dénotent
35,597 corpus weight
- déraciner
déraciner
35,595 corpus weight
- désuètes
désuètes
35,594 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dénotent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dénotent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.nɔt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dénotent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dénotent is uncommon French at frequency #64,404 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.nɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
dénotent doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dénotent, spelled D-É-N-O-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de dénoter.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de dénoter.
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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