dépanne
\de.pan\
The verdict
“dépanne” is uncommon French (frequency #53,922 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,922
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de dépanner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-depanne · dépanne · French
dépanne · rank #53,922 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,922
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dénégations
Nearest frequency peer: dénégations (-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 « dépanne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- démontrés
démontrés
46,082 corpus weight
- dénoncez
dénoncez
46,081 corpus weight
- dénégations
dénégations
46,080 corpus weight
- dépanne
dépanne
46,079 corpus weight
- dévorée
dévorée
46,078 corpus weight
- ecce
ecce
46,077 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dépanne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « dépanne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dépanne is uncommon French at frequency #53,922 among 5,307 “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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