désamour
\de.za.muʁ\
The verdict
“désamour” is uncommon French (frequency #55,231 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,231
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cessation de l’amour ; refroidissement des relations amoureuses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desamour · désamour · French
désamour · rank #55,231 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,231
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH désabusés
Nearest frequency peer: désabusés (-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 « désamour »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dépossession
dépossession
44,773 corpus weight
- désabusés
désabusés
44,771 corpus weight
- désamour
désamour
44,770 corpus weight
- désertent
désertent
44,769 corpus weight
- dévouer
dévouer
44,768 corpus weight
- ear
ear
44,767 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « désamour » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | désamour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.za.muʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,231 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « désamour » en français
Rare enough to double-check
désamour is uncommon French at frequency #55,231 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.za.muʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for désamour, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is désamour, spelled D-É-S-A-M-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1Cessation de l’amour ; refroidissement des relations amoureuses.
- 2Éloignement après une période de liens étroits.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how désamour appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vostre desamour et nonchalence d’aimer.
Le désamour est-il inéluctable?
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).