désactivant
\de.zak.ti.vɑ̃\
The verdict
“désactivant” is uncommon French (frequency #93,709 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,709
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de désactiver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desactivant · désactivant · French
désactivant · rank #93,709 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,709
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dépossédée
Nearest frequency peer: dépossédée (-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 « désactivant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dépendez
dépendez
6,295 corpus weight
- dépersonnal…
dépersonnalisation
6,294 corpus weight
- dépossédée
dépossédée
6,293 corpus weight
- désactivant
désactivant
6,292 corpus weight
- déshabillage
déshabillage
6,291 corpus weight
- désorienter
désorienter
6,290 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « désactivant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | désactivant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.zak.ti.vɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #93,709 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « désactivant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
désactivant is uncommon French at frequency #93,709 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.zak.ti.vɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de désactiver.".
désactivant has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is désactivant, spelled D-É-S-A-C-T-I-V-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de désactiver.
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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