dépanneuse
\de.pa.nøz\
The verdict
“dépanneuse” is uncommon French (frequency #61,478 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,478
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Véhicule permettant de remorquer les véhicules en panne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-depanneuse · dépanneuse · French
dépanneuse · rank #61,478 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,478
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH démerdez
Nearest frequency peer: démerdez (-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 « dépanneuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- défouloir
défouloir
38,526 corpus weight
- dégoûtent
dégoûtent
38,525 corpus weight
- démerdez
démerdez
38,524 corpus weight
- dépanneuse
dépanneuse
38,523 corpus weight
- déplaces
déplaces
38,522 corpus weight
- désagrégati…
désagrégation
38,520 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dépanneuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dépanneuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.pa.nøz\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #61,478 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dépanneuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dépanneuse is uncommon French at frequency #61,478 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.pa.nøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
dépanneuse has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is dépanneuse, spelled D-É-P-A-N-N-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Véhicule permettant de remorquer les véhicules en panne.
- 2Celle qui est chargée de réparer les pannes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dépanneuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans la lumière des projecteurs du camion des pompiers et de la dépanneuse que les gendarmes ont réquisitionnée à Pleyben, l’équipe de secours se prépare.
Mais la jeune dépanneuse le sait bien : dans un univers très masculin, sa présence dénote.
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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