dépaysant
\de.pe.i.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“dépaysant” is uncommon French (frequency #72,278 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,278
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui dépayse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-depaysant · dépaysant · French
dépaysant · rank #72,278 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,278
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déodorants
Nearest frequency peer: déodorants (-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 « dépaysant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- délestage
délestage
27,727 corpus weight
- déloyauté
déloyauté
27,725 corpus weight
- déodorants
déodorants
27,724 corpus weight
- dépaysant
dépaysant
27,723 corpus weight
- dérailleur
dérailleur
27,722 corpus weight
- dérobent
dérobent
27,721 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dépaysant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dépaysant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.pe.i.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #72,278 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dépaysant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dépaysant is uncommon French at frequency #72,278 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \de.pe.i.zɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui dépayse.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dépaysant, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is dépaysant, spelled D-É-P-A-Y-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui dépayse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dépaysant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Partir en voyage, c'est dépaysant. Ça change du quotidien. Cette situation est différente de mon quotidien mais de manière positive.
Ne pas aller au bureau pour aller se promener tranquillement en ville, c'est dépaysant.
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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