dérivation impropre
\de.ʁi.va.sjɔ̃ ɛ̃.pʁɔpʁ\
The verdict
“dérivation impropre” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Procédé de formation des mots par lequel un mot change de nature sans modification de sa forme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-derivation-impropre · dérivation impropre · French
dérivation impropre · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 19 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dérivation impropre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.ʁi.va.sjɔ̃ ɛ̃.pʁɔpʁ\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
dérivation impropre is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.ʁi.va.sjɔ̃ ɛ̃.pʁɔpʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Procédé de formation des mots par lequel un mot change de nature sans modification de sa forme.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dérivation impropre, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dérivation impropre, spelled D-É-R-I-V-A-T-I-O-N- -I-M-P-R-O-P-R-E.
Definition
- 1Procédé de formation des mots par lequel un mot change de nature sans modification de sa forme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dérivation impropre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À ces trois groupes principaux il faut en joindre un quatrième, la dérivation impropre. Par ce procédé on ne crée pas des mots nouveaux proprement dits, mais on donne aux mots déjà existants un emploi ou une fonction nouvelle, sans que ce changement soit accompagné d’aucune modification de la forme : ainsi de l’infinitif être on tire le substantif un être.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.