dérégler
\de.ʁe.ɡle\
The verdict
“dérégler” is uncommon French (frequency #80,150 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,150
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire qu’une chose ne soit plus réglée, n’ait plus sa marche, son cours accoutumé, n’exerce plus son action avec régularité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deregler · dérégler · French
dérégler · rank #80,150 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,150
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dépénaliser
Nearest frequency peer: dépénaliser (-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 « dérégler »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- démotivation
démotivation
19,855 corpus weight
- démultiplier
démultiplier
19,854 corpus weight
- dénaturation
dénaturation
19,853 corpus weight
- dépénaliser
dépénaliser
19,852 corpus weight
- dérégler
dérégler
19,851 corpus weight
- désinfecte
désinfecte
19,849 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dérégler » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dérégler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.ʁe.ɡle\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,150 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dérégler » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dérégler is uncommon French at frequency #80,150 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.ʁe.ɡle\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
dérégler has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is dérégler, spelled D-É-R-É-G-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire qu’une chose ne soit plus réglée, n’ait plus sa marche, son cours accoutumé, n’exerce plus son action avec régularité.
- 2Faire sortir de la règle morale, des règles du devoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dérégler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le froid, la chaleur, l’humidité dérèglent les horloges, les pendules, les montres.
Son estomac se dérègle aisément.
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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