dépêchent
\de.pɛʃ\
The verdict
“dépêchent” is uncommon French (frequency #90,669 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,669
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de dépêcher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-depechent · dépêchent · French
dépêchent · rank #90,669 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,669
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dépucelage
Nearest frequency peer: dépucelage (-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 « dépêchent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- déposons
déposons
9,335 corpus weight
- déprogrammer
déprogrammer
9,334 corpus weight
- dépucelage
dépucelage
9,333 corpus weight
- dépêchent
dépêchent
9,332 corpus weight
- désagréable…
désagréablement
9,331 corpus weight
- désamorce
désamorce
9,330 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dépêchent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dépêchent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.pɛʃ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #90,669 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dépêchent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dépêchent is uncommon French at frequency #90,669 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.pɛʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dépêchent, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dépêchent, spelled D-É-P-Ê-C-H-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de dépêcher.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de dépêcher.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).