dérogent

\de.ʁɔʒ\

/\de.ʁɔʒ\/ verb

The verdict

“dérogent” is uncommon French (frequency #85,678 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#85,678
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 déroger.

Corpus desk

Index FR-derogent · dérogent · French

dérogent · rank #85,678 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #85,678
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH déroulante

Nearest frequency peer: déroulante (+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 « dérogent »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dérogent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for dérogent
PropertyValue
Headworddérogent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\de.ʁɔʒ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#85,678
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « dérogent » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.dérogenttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « déroulante » (#85,679), « déprédations » (#85,676), « déstabilisés » (#85,680). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « dérogent » est au #85,678. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

dérogent is uncommon French at frequency #85,678 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.ʁɔʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for dérogent in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is dérogent, spelled D-É-R-O-G-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de déroger.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de déroger.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how dérogent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La liberté, dans ces singuliers pays, consiste à disputailler sur la chose publique, à se garder soi-même, se dissiper en mille occupations patriotiques plus sottes les unes que les autres, en ce qu’elles dérogent au noble et saint égoïsme qui engendre toutes les grandes choses humaines.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dérogent"?
"dérogent" is spelled D-É-R-O-G-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \de.ʁɔʒ\.
What does "dérogent" mean?
As a verb, "dérogent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de déroger.
How do you pronounce "dérogent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dérogent" is \de.ʁɔʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dérogent", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list