dépanne
\de.pan\
The verdict
“dépanne” is uncommon French (frequency #53,922 among 404,891 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,922
- frequency rank, French
- 404,891
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de dépanner.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dépanne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.pan\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,922 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dépanne” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
dépanne is uncommon French at frequency #53,922 among 404,891 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.pan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for dépanne, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is dépanne, spelled D-É-P-A-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de dépanner.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de dépanner.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de dépanner.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de dépanner.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de dépanner.
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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Using “dépanne”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-É-P-A-N-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \de.pan\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.