dépoussiérer
\de.pu.sje.ʁe\
The verdict
“dépoussiérer” is uncommon French (frequency #55,913 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,913
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enlever la poussière de.
Corpus desk
Index FR-depoussierer · dépoussiérer · French
dépoussiérer · rank #55,913 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,913
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dépossédés
Nearest frequency peer: dépossédés (-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 « dépoussiérer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dénombrés
dénombrés
44,091 corpus weight
- déplorait
déplorait
44,090 corpus weight
- dépossédés
dépossédés
44,089 corpus weight
- dépoussiérer
dépoussiérer
44,088 corpus weight
- dérèglements
dérèglements
44,087 corpus weight
- désarmée
désarmée
44,086 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dépoussiérer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dépoussiérer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.pu.sje.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #55,913 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dépoussiérer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dépoussiérer is uncommon French at frequency #55,913 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.pu.sje.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
dépoussiérer has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dépoussiérer, spelled D-É-P-O-U-S-S-I-É-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Enlever la poussière de.
- 2Rendre plus actuel, d’apparence plus moderne.
- 3Réformer, moderniser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dépoussiérer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les dépoussiéreurs pneumatiques offrent l’inconvénient de dépoussiérer moins efficacement que les tamis vibrants, — […] — et de consommer une quantité importante d'air, c'est à dire de force motrice.
Il mire ses targettes, ses belles vernos « saumur >, il se les examine ostentatoire, cependant que je jauge la vase, il se les dépoussière à petites pichenettes désinvoltes...
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).