dépouille
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,612
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
dépouille is aFrenchnoun. It means: Peau qui, au moment de la mue, se détache du corps des serpents et de certains insectes. Pronounced \de.puj\. Often confused with dépouilles and dépouiller.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dépouille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.puj\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #15,612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dépouille is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.puj\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,612 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for dépouille, with forms such as "ddépouille", "depouille", and "dpéouille". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "dépouilles", "dépouiller", "dépouillée", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is dépouille, spelled D-É-P-O-U-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Peau qui, au moment de la mue, se détache du corps des serpents et de certains insectes.
- 2Peau de bête féroce.
- 3Linge qu’on a quitté.
- 4Corps d’un défunt.
- 5Succession d’une personne, et particulièrement des dignités, des emplois qui deviennent vacants par sa mort.
- 6Toute chose dont on s’empare ou que l’on acquiert au détriment, au préjudice d’autrui.
- 7Tout ce qu’on enlève à l’ennemi.
- 8Pente, inclinaison prévue sur les parties latérales d’un modèle afin d’assurer un parfait démoulage en vue de son extraction lors de la réalisation du moule.
- 9En usinage, espace laissé par un outil de découpe pour permettre l’élimination des copeaux de matière. → voir angle de dépouille.
- 10Récolte d'une empouille.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddépouille,depouille,dpéouille,déopuille,dépoiulle,dépouile,dépouilel,dépoulile,déppouille,dépuoille,édpouille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for dépouille
Misspelling Variants of "dépouille"
Frequency rank: #15,612 in French
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Nearby French words
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