déroutante
\de.ʁu.tɑ̃t\
The verdict
“déroutante” is uncommon French (frequency #57,233 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,233
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de déroutant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deroutante · déroutante · French
déroutante · rank #57,233 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,233
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dépravation
Nearest frequency peer: dépravation (-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 « déroutante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- déplaisante
déplaisante
42,770 corpus weight
- dépravation
dépravation
42,769 corpus weight
- déroutante
déroutante
42,768 corpus weight
- désarme
désarme
42,767 corpus weight
- désespérance
désespérance
42,766 corpus weight
- désespérante
désespérante
42,765 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « déroutante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | déroutante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.ʁu.tɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #57,233 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « déroutante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
déroutante is uncommon French at frequency #57,233 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \de.ʁu.tɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de déroutant.".
déroutante has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is déroutante, spelled D-É-R-O-U-T-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de déroutant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how déroutante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et plus déroutante encore est cette certitude que tout se déroulera entre nous sans raisonnement et sans préméditation, pas un instant je ne me demande comment agir pour la gagner ou ne pas la perdre, je ne fais que vaciller en moi et tomber lentement en elle, délogifié, dénervé, désarmé, aspiré par le fluide et la fluidité qui se dégagent de son regard,…
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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