dépeignant
\de.pɛ.ɲɑ̃\
The verdict
“dépeignant” is uncommon French (frequency #77,455 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,455
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de dépeigner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-depeignant · dépeignant · French
dépeignant · rank #77,455 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,455
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dénonces
Nearest frequency peer: dénonces (-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 « dépeignant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- déménagera
déménagera
22,549 corpus weight
- dénonces
dénonces
22,547 corpus weight
- dépeignant
dépeignant
22,546 corpus weight
- déplairait
déplairait
22,545 corpus weight
- désavantagés
désavantagés
22,544 corpus weight
- déshydratés
déshydratés
22,543 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dépeignant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dépeignant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.pɛ.ɲɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,455 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dépeignant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dépeignant is uncommon French at frequency #77,455 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.pɛ.ɲɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de dépeigner.".
Zero misspellings are on record for dépeignant in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is dépeignant, spelled D-É-P-E-I-G-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de dépeigner.
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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