deny
\dɪ.ˈnaɪ\
The verdict
“deny” is uncommon French (frequency #79,212 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,212
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nier, dénier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deny · deny · French
deny · rank #79,212 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,212
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dermatite
Nearest frequency peer: dermatite (+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 « deny »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- daronne
daronne
20,795 corpus weight
- daw
daw
20,794 corpus weight
- deny
deny
20,789 corpus weight
- dermatite
dermatite
20,788 corpus weight
- Dessalines
Dessalines
20,785 corpus weight
- deveniez
deveniez
20,783 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « deny » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | deny |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dɪ.ˈnaɪ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #79,212 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « deny » en français
Rare enough to double-check
deny is uncommon French at frequency #79,212 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \dɪ.ˈnaɪ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for deny, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is deny, spelled D-E-N-Y.
Definition
- 1Nier, dénier.
- 2Démentir.
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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