dépeuplement
\de.pœ.plə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“dépeuplement” is uncommon French (frequency #84,733 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,733
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de dépeupler ou de se dépeupler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-depeuplement · dépeuplement · French
dépeuplement · rank #84,733 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,733
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dépensière
Nearest frequency peer: dépensière (-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 « dépeuplement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- démographiq…
démographiquement
15,271 corpus weight
- démotiver
démotiver
15,270 corpus weight
- dépensière
dépensière
15,269 corpus weight
- dépeuplement
dépeuplement
15,268 corpus weight
- dépressuris…
dépressurisation
15,267 corpus weight
- désignerait
désignerait
15,266 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dépeuplement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dépeuplement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.pœ.plə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #84,733 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dépeuplement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dépeuplement is uncommon French at frequency #84,733 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.pœ.plə.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for dépeuplement, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is dépeuplement, spelled D-É-P-E-U-P-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action de dépeupler ou de se dépeupler.
- 2Abattage de toutes les bêtes d'un troupeau
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dépeuplement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À terme, il conduira au dépeuplement des plateaux, après avoir nourri une importante émigration hors frontière.
Le dépeuplement d’un étang, d’un canton de chasse. — Les guerres continuelles causent le dépeuplement des états.
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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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).