désapprouver
\de.za.pʁu.ve\
The verdict
“désapprouver” is uncommon French (frequency #67,471 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,471
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Trouver mauvais ce qu’on entend dire, ce qu’on voit faire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desapprouver · désapprouver · French
désapprouver · rank #67,471 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,471
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH députées
Nearest frequency peer: députées (-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 « désapprouver »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- défrayer
défrayer
32,535 corpus weight
- dénégation
dénégation
32,534 corpus weight
- déphasage
déphasage
32,533 corpus weight
- dépressives
dépressives
32,532 corpus weight
- députées
députées
32,531 corpus weight
- désapprouver
désapprouver
32,530 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « désapprouver » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | désapprouver |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.za.pʁu.ve\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #67,471 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « désapprouver » en français
Rare enough to double-check
désapprouver is uncommon French at frequency #67,471 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.za.pʁu.ve\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for désapprouver in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 désapprouver, spelled D-É-S-A-P-P-R-O-U-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1Trouver mauvais ce qu’on entend dire, ce qu’on voit faire.
- 2Exprimer un désaccord, ne pas être d'accord.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how désapprouver appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
. J’avais entendu aussi qu’il n’était pas toujours bien sage, qu’il se promenait quelquefois tard le soir ; qu’il fallait le sermonner, et intérieurement je désapprouvais sa conduite.
Les jurisconsultes civils donnèrent aussi leur avis et Valin dans son Commentaire sur l'Ordonnance de la Marine déclara « que les philosophes (sic) qui désapprouvaient la guerre de course étaient de mauvais citoyens. » — (Étienne Dupont, Le vieux Saint-Malo : Les Corsaires chez eux, Édouard Champion, 1929, page 50)
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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