désavantageux
\de.za.vɑ̃.ta.ʒø\
The verdict
“désavantageux” is uncommon French (frequency #81,979 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,979
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui cause ou qui peut causer du désavantage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desavantageux · désavantageux · French
désavantageux · rank #81,979 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,979
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH désactivées
Nearest frequency peer: désactivées (-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 « désavantageux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- déployait
déployait
18,025 corpus weight
- déprimantes
déprimantes
18,024 corpus weight
- désactivées
désactivées
18,023 corpus weight
- désavantage…
désavantageux
18,022 corpus weight
- désodorisant
désodorisant
18,021 corpus weight
- détendeur
détendeur
18,020 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « désavantageux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | désavantageux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.za.vɑ̃.ta.ʒø\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #81,979 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « désavantageux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
désavantageux is uncommon French at frequency #81,979 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \de.za.vɑ̃.ta.ʒø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui cause ou qui peut causer du désavantage.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for désavantageux, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is désavantageux, spelled D-É-S-A-V-A-N-T-A-G-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui cause ou qui peut causer du désavantage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how désavantageux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette clause du contrat vous est désavantageuse.
Cette affaire m’a été fort désavantageuse.
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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