déphasage
\de.fa.zaʒ\
The verdict
“déphasage” is uncommon French (frequency #67,468 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,468
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Différence de phase entre deux phénomènes alternatifs de même fréquence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dephasage · déphasage · French
déphasage · rank #67,468 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,468
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dénégation
Nearest frequency peer: dénégation (-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 « déphasage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- défendrons
défendrons
32,536 corpus weight
- défrayer
défrayer
32,535 corpus weight
- dénégation
dénégation
32,534 corpus weight
- déphasage
déphasage
32,533 corpus weight
- dépressives
dépressives
32,532 corpus weight
- députées
députées
32,531 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « déphasage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | déphasage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.fa.zaʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,468 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « déphasage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
déphasage is uncommon French at frequency #67,468 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.fa.zaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
déphasage has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is déphasage, spelled D-É-P-H-A-S-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Différence de phase entre deux phénomènes alternatifs de même fréquence.
- 2Fait d’être déphasé, en décalage horaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how déphasage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Autrement dit, dans cette zone, le déphasage est très sensible à des variations de fréquence.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).