désavantage
French, noun
désavantage is spelled D-É-S-A-V-A-N-T-A-G-E (11 letters) and appears 1.9 times per million words in written French, the 20,952nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Désavantage is a French masculine noun meaning “drawback, disadvantage, handicap” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of désavantager. With an accent, désavantagé is a different word: “past participle of désavantager”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Infériorité en quelque genre que ce soit qui empêche de réussir”.
What does désavantage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedrawback, disadvantage, handicap
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of désavantager
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Infériorité en quelque genre que ce soit qui empêche de réussir. 2. Préjudice, dommage.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of désavantage
- désavantages plural
- désavantagée feminine
- désavantagés masculine plural
- désavantagées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to désavantage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is désavantage in French?
désavantage appears 1.9 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).