déplier
\de.pli.je\
The verdict
“déplier” is uncommon French (frequency #69,789 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,789
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Défaire en l’étendant ce qui était plié.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deplier · déplier · French
déplier · rank #69,789 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,789
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH désespèrent
Nearest frequency peer: désespèrent (+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 « déplier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- délurée
délurée
30,215 corpus weight
- dépeints
dépeints
30,214 corpus weight
- déplier
déplier
30,212 corpus weight
- désespèrent
désespèrent
30,211 corpus weight
- désinfectan…
désinfectants
30,210 corpus weight
- détendent
détendent
30,209 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « déplier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | déplier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.pli.je\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,789 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « déplier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
déplier is uncommon French at frequency #69,789 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.pli.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for déplier in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 déplier, spelled D-É-P-L-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Défaire en l’étendant ce qui était plié.
- 2Étaler de la marchandise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how déplier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mon père avait déplié son journal, L'Express de l'Est, dirigé par M. Chatelain, un ex-Kédale. Il commentait les nouvelles.
Anaïs pétrissait son grand mouchoir, puis le dépliait pour le refroisser à nouveau.
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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