déprogrammer
\de.pʁɔ.ɡʁa.me\
The verdict
“déprogrammer” is uncommon French (frequency #90,667 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,667
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Annuler (quelque chose qui avait été programmé).
Corpus desk
Index FR-deprogrammer · déprogrammer · French
déprogrammer · rank #90,667 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,667
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déposons
Nearest frequency peer: déposons (-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 « déprogrammer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dépolitisat…
dépolitisation
9,337 corpus weight
- déposeront
déposeront
9,336 corpus weight
- déposons
déposons
9,335 corpus weight
- déprogrammer
déprogrammer
9,334 corpus weight
- dépucelage
dépucelage
9,333 corpus weight
- dépêchent
dépêchent
9,332 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « déprogrammer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | déprogrammer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.pʁɔ.ɡʁa.me\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #90,667 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « déprogrammer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
déprogrammer is uncommon French at frequency #90,667 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.pʁɔ.ɡʁa.me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Annuler (quelque chose qui avait été programmé).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for déprogrammer, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 déprogrammer, spelled D-É-P-R-O-G-R-A-M-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Annuler (quelque chose qui avait été programmé).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how déprogrammer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce jeu estival itinérant mêlait quiz, jeux d’adresse et énigmes, avec Stéphane Rotenberg à la présentation, a été déprogrammé mi-juillet.
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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