dépendu
\de.pɑ̃.dy\
The verdict
“dépendu” is uncommon French (frequency #85,673 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,673
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de dépendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dependu · dépendu · French
dépendu · rank #85,673 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,673
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dénommer
Nearest frequency peer: dénommer (-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 « dépendu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dénaturée
dénaturée
14,330 corpus weight
- dénommer
dénommer
14,329 corpus weight
- dépendu
dépendu
14,328 corpus weight
- dépités
dépités
14,327 corpus weight
- déploiera
déploiera
14,326 corpus weight
- déprédations
déprédations
14,325 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dépendu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dépendu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.pɑ̃.dy\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,673 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dépendu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dépendu is uncommon French at frequency #85,673 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.pɑ̃.dy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier de dépendre.".
Zero misspellings are on record for dépendu in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dépendu, spelled D-É-P-E-N-D-U.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier de dépendre.
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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