derche
\dɛʁʃ\
The verdict
“derche” is uncommon French (frequency #75,586 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,586
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Postérieur, arrière-train. → voir croupe, croupion, cul, derjo, fesses, fessier, fondement, pétard, popotin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-derche · derche · French
derche · rank #75,586 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,586
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Desharnais
Nearest frequency peer: Desharnais (+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 « derche »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- derche
derche
24,415 corpus weight
- Desharnais
Desharnais
24,414 corpus weight
- Despentes
Despentes
24,413 corpus weight
- Desplechin
Desplechin
24,412 corpus weight
- determine
determine
24,411 corpus weight
- deuce
deuce
24,410 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « derche » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | derche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɛʁʃ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,586 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « derche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
derche is uncommon French at frequency #75,586 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɛʁʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Postérieur, arrière-train. → voir croupe, croupion, cul, derjo, fesses, fessier, fondement, pétard, popotin.".
Zero misspellings are on record for derche in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is derche, spelled D-E-R-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Postérieur, arrière-train. → voir croupe, croupion, cul, derjo, fesses, fessier, fondement, pétard, popotin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how derche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Huit stalles, avec huit gars en rang d’oignon, bien assis, le derche au vent, et qui se concentraient, ou lisaient le feuilleton, ou conversaient de box à box.
Se dessina au fil de son imagination une galerie de fesses à la blancheur douteuse, de trous de balle hémorroïdaires, de derches de fiotes, de popotins pratiques, de croupes rétives, de derrières voluptueux, de raies au parfum de crevettes avariées.
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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