dépêcha
\de.pe.ʃa\
The verdict
“dépêcha” is uncommon French (frequency #83,810 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,810
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de dépêcher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-depecha · dépêcha · French
dépêcha · rank #83,810 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,810
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déprimants
Nearest frequency peer: déprimants (-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 « dépêcha »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- délogés
délogés
16,194 corpus weight
- déplaceront
déplaceront
16,193 corpus weight
- déprimants
déprimants
16,192 corpus weight
- dépêcha
dépêcha
16,191 corpus weight
- dérangerais
dérangerais
16,190 corpus weight
- Déroulède
Déroulède
16,189 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dépêcha » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dépêcha |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.pe.ʃa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,810 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dépêcha » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dépêcha is uncommon French at frequency #83,810 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.pe.ʃa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de dépêcher.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dépêcha, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dépêcha, spelled D-É-P-Ê-C-H-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de dépêcher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dépêcha appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il dépêcha son fidèle Hermès sous la terre, afin de convaincre cette fois Hadès de délivrer Perséphone.
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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