dérocher
\de.ʁɔ.ʃe\
The verdict
“dérocher” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enlever des rochers d’un chenal, du lit d’une rivière, d’un terrain, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-derocher · dérocher · French
dérocher · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | dérocher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.ʁɔ.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dérocher » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dérocher is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \de.ʁɔ.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
dérocher has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dérocher, spelled D-É-R-O-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Enlever des rochers d’un chenal, du lit d’une rivière, d’un terrain, etc.
- 2Utiliser un produit corrosif (en général un acide) pour enlever les scories à la surface d'une pièce métallique.
- 3Lâcher prise, tomber, dévisser
- 4Se dit de l'action d'un grand oiseau de proie de provoquer, par dressage, la chute d'un gibier quadrupède d'un escarpement rocheux.
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.