dépérir

/\de.pe.ʁiʁ\/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#52,641

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

dépérir is aFrenchverb. It means: S’affaiblir graduellement jusqu’à l’anéantissement total. Pronounced \de.pe.ʁiʁ\.

Key facts for dépérir
PropertyValue
Headworddépérir
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\de.pe.ʁiʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#52,641
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of dépérir in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for dépérir is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.pe.ʁiʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #52,641 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for dépérir in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is dépérir, spelled D-É-P-É-R-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    S’affaiblir graduellement jusqu’à l’anéantissement total.
  2. 2
    Se détériorer graduellement jusqu’à la ruine totale.
  3. 3
    Devenir plus faible avec le temps.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #52,641 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dépérir"?
"dépérir" is spelled D-É-P-É-R-I-R. The IPA pronunciation is \de.pe.ʁiʁ\.
What does "dépérir" mean?
As a verb, "dépérir" means: S’affaiblir graduellement jusqu’à l’anéantissement total.
How do you pronounce "dépérir"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dépérir" is \de.pe.ʁiʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dépérir" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.