dépolluer
\de.pɔ.lɥe\
The verdict
“dépolluer” is uncommon French (frequency #87,571 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,571
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Effacer les effets de la pollution sur (un lieu…).
Corpus desk
Index FR-depolluer · dépolluer · French
dépolluer · rank #87,571 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,571
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dépassons
Nearest frequency peer: dépassons (-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 « dépolluer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- démontrez
démontrez
12,433 corpus weight
- dépassons
dépassons
12,431 corpus weight
- dépolluer
dépolluer
12,430 corpus weight
- dépouilleme…
dépouillements
12,429 corpus weight
- déprimées
déprimées
12,428 corpus weight
- dérivait
dérivait
12,427 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dépolluer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dépolluer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.pɔ.lɥe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,571 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dépolluer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dépolluer is uncommon French at frequency #87,571 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.pɔ.lɥe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Effacer les effets de la pollution sur (un lieu…).".
No misspelling variants are generated for dépolluer in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 dépolluer, spelled D-É-P-O-L-L-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Effacer les effets de la pollution sur (un lieu…).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dépolluer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il n’y a aucune contrainte légale sur la manière de dépolluer un sol en France.
Si les éleveurs ne peuvent pas empêcher les vaches d’éructer, certains agroindustriels cherchent à dépolluer cette filière.
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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