dépérissement
\de.pe.ʁis.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“dépérissement” is uncommon French (frequency #68,236 among 404,891 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,236
- frequency rank, French
- 404,891
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - État de ce qui dépérit ou est dépéri.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dépérissement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.pe.ʁis.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #68,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dépérissement” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
dépérissement is uncommon French at frequency #68,236 among 404,891 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.pe.ʁis.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dépérissement, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dépérissement, spelled D-É-P-É-R-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1État de ce qui dépérit ou est dépéri.
- 2Altération ou diminution d’un droit, ou d’une preuve.
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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Using “dépérissement”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-É-P-É-R-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \de.pe.ʁis.mɑ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.