dérobent
\de.ʁɔb\
The verdict
“dérobent” is uncommon French (frequency #72,280 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,280
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de dérober.
Corpus desk
Index FR-derobent · dérobent · French
dérobent · rank #72,280 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,280
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dérailleur
Nearest frequency peer: dérailleur (-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 « dérobent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- déodorants
déodorants
27,724 corpus weight
- dépaysant
dépaysant
27,723 corpus weight
- dérailleur
dérailleur
27,722 corpus weight
- dérobent
dérobent
27,721 corpus weight
- désordonnés
désordonnés
27,719 corpus weight
- désorganisés
désorganisés
27,718 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dérobent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dérobent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.ʁɔb\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,280 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dérobent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dérobent is uncommon French at frequency #72,280 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.ʁɔb\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for dérobent, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dérobent, spelled D-É-R-O-B-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de dérober.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de dérober.
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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