dépensier
\de.pɑ̃.sje\
The verdict
“dépensier” is uncommon French (frequency #59,970 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,970
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui dépense excessivement, qui aime à dépenser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-depensier · dépensier · French
dépensier · rank #59,970 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,970
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déniche
Nearest frequency peer: déniche (-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 « dépensier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- délecter
délecter
40,034 corpus weight
- délimitant
délimitant
40,033 corpus weight
- déniche
déniche
40,032 corpus weight
- dépensier
dépensier
40,031 corpus weight
- désabusée
désabusée
40,030 corpus weight
- déshérence
déshérence
40,029 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dépensier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dépensier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.pɑ̃.sje\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,970 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dépensier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dépensier is uncommon French at frequency #59,970 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \de.pɑ̃.sje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui dépense excessivement, qui aime à dépenser.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dépensier, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dépensier, spelled D-É-P-E-N-S-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Qui dépense excessivement, qui aime à dépenser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dépensier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je connais Victor : sa gaieté est une gaieté sans esprit, une gaieté de caserne, il est sans talent et dépensier.
Le duc d’Orléans était leur garant, leur pavillon, leur espoir. Ils le savaient futile, versatile, influençable, […], aussi dépourvu de sens critique que de sens pratique, joueur, débauché, dépensier.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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