dépérit
\de.pe.ʁi\
The verdict
“dépérit” is uncommon French (frequency #82,892 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,892
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de dépérir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deperit · dépérit · French
dépérit · rank #82,892 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,892
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dépote
Nearest frequency peer: dépote (-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 « dépérit »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- déontologue
déontologue
17,112 corpus weight
- dépensera
dépensera
17,111 corpus weight
- dépote
dépote
17,110 corpus weight
- dépérit
dépérit
17,109 corpus weight
- déroulèrent
déroulèrent
17,107 corpus weight
- désherbant
désherbant
17,106 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dépérit » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dépérit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.pe.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,892 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dépérit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dépérit is uncommon French at frequency #82,892 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.pe.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dépérit, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dépérit, spelled D-É-P-É-R-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de dépérir.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de dépérir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dépérit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La vie urbaine dépérit et, comme la civilisation islamique médiévale était elle-même essentiellement urbaine et que la richesse matérielle dépendait du commerce, la prospérité déclina.
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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