dépopulation
\de.pɔ.py.la.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“dépopulation” is uncommon French (frequency #94,735 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,735
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Baisse de population d'un pays, d'une région.
Corpus desk
Index FR-depopulation · dépopulation · French
dépopulation · rank #94,735 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,735
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH départemental…
Nearest frequency peer: départementalisation (-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 « dépopulation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- démerdes
démerdes
5,269 corpus weight
- dénaturés
dénaturés
5,268 corpus weight
- département…
départementalisation
5,267 corpus weight
- dépopulation
dépopulation
5,266 corpus weight
- dépoussiéra…
dépoussiérage
5,265 corpus weight
- déprogrammé
déprogrammé
5,264 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dépopulation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dépopulation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.pɔ.py.la.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #94,735 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dépopulation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dépopulation is uncommon French at frequency #94,735 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.pɔ.py.la.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for dépopulation in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dépopulation, spelled D-É-P-O-P-U-L-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Baisse de population d'un pays, d'une région.
- 2Action de chercher à réduire, voire à anéantir la population d'une région.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dépopulation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ce système devait, de guerre en guerre, de proscription en proscription, de servitude en servitude, aboutir vers la fin à une dépopulation effroyable.
On vient de publier la statistique de la natalité française pendant l'année dernière. Les chiffres baissent d’année en année. La dépopulation suit sa marche avec une constance désormais certaine.
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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