départage
\de.paʁ.taʒ\
The verdict
“départage” is uncommon French (frequency #81,097 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,097
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tour final.
Corpus desk
Index FR-departage · départage · French
départage · rank #81,097 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,097
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH démontrable
Nearest frequency peer: démontrable (-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 « départage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- démarquant
démarquant
18,907 corpus weight
- démonstrati…
démonstratifs
18,906 corpus weight
- démontrable
démontrable
18,905 corpus weight
- départage
départage
18,904 corpus weight
- dépresseur
dépresseur
18,903 corpus weight
- dépuceler
dépuceler
18,902 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « départage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | départage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.paʁ.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,097 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « départage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
départage is uncommon French at frequency #81,097 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.paʁ.taʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tour final.".
No misspelling variants are generated for départage in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 départage, spelled D-É-P-A-R-T-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Tour final.
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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