dépénaliser
\de.pe.na.li.ze\
The verdict
“dépénaliser” is uncommon French (frequency #80,149 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,149
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arrêter de considérer comme passible de poursuites pénales.
Corpus desk
Index FR-depenaliser · dépénaliser · French
dépénaliser · rank #80,149 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,149
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dénaturation
Nearest frequency peer: dénaturation (-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 « dépénaliser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- démotivation
démotivation
19,855 corpus weight
- démultiplier
démultiplier
19,854 corpus weight
- dénaturation
dénaturation
19,853 corpus weight
- dépénaliser
dépénaliser
19,852 corpus weight
- dérégler
dérégler
19,851 corpus weight
- désinfecte
désinfecte
19,849 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dépénaliser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dépénaliser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.pe.na.li.ze\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #80,149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dépénaliser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dépénaliser is uncommon French at frequency #80,149 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.pe.na.li.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Arrêter de considérer comme passible de poursuites pénales.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dépénaliser, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dépénaliser, spelled D-É-P-É-N-A-L-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Arrêter de considérer comme passible de poursuites pénales.
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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