déracinement

\de.ʁa.sin.mɑ̃\

/\de.ʁa.sin.mɑ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“déracinement” is uncommon French (frequency #62,945 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#62,945
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de déraciner ou état de ce qui est déraciné.

Corpus desk

Index FR-deracinement · déracinement · French

déracinement · rank #62,945 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #62,945
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH dépassez

Nearest frequency peer: dépassez (-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 « déracinement »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « déracinement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for déracinement
PropertyValue
Headworddéracinement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\de.ʁa.sin.mɑ̃\
Letters12
Frequency rank#62,945
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « déracinement » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.déracinementtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « dépassez » (#62,944), « dérangeantes » (#62,946), « dépassa » (#62,943). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « déracinement » est au #62,945. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

déracinement is uncommon French at frequency #62,945 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.ʁa.sin.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for déracinement in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is déracinement, spelled D-É-R-A-C-I-N-E-M-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de déraciner ou état de ce qui est déraciné.
  2. 2
    État de celui ou de celle qui est coupée de ses racines familiales, culturelles, etc.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how déracinement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le déracinement des souches de cette avenue a coûté beaucoup.
  2. Le déracinement de cet arbre vous fait voir quelle a été la violence de l’orage.

Antonyms

enracinement

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "déracinement"?
"déracinement" is spelled D-É-R-A-C-I-N-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \de.ʁa.sin.mɑ̃\.
What does "déracinement" mean?
As a noun, "déracinement" means: Action de déraciner ou état de ce qui est déraciné.
How do you pronounce "déracinement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "déracinement" is \de.ʁa.sin.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "déracinement", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

dérangeantes#62,946décroissants#62,936déambulation#62,934demanderesse#62,909

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list