désavouer
\de.za.vwe\
The verdict
“désavouer” is uncommon French (frequency #57,899 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,899
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nier d’avoir dit ou fait quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desavouer · désavouer · French
désavouer · rank #57,899 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,899
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dépensez
Nearest frequency peer: dépensez (-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 « désavouer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- démunie
démunie
42,105 corpus weight
- déontologiq…
déontologiques
42,104 corpus weight
- dépensez
dépensez
42,103 corpus weight
- désavouer
désavouer
42,102 corpus weight
- désintéress…
désintéressement
42,100 corpus weight
- désolidaris…
désolidariser
42,099 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « désavouer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | désavouer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.za.vwe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,899 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « désavouer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
désavouer is uncommon French at frequency #57,899 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.za.vwe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for désavouer, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 désavouer, spelled D-É-S-A-V-O-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nier d’avoir dit ou fait quelque chose.
- 2Ne vouloir pas reconnaître une chose, voire une personne, pour sienne.
- 3Rétracter.
- 4Déclarer qu’on n’avait pas autorisé quelqu’un à faire ou à dire ce qu’il a fait ou dit.
- 5Désapprouver, condamner, réprouver.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how désavouer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous l’avez dit, vous n’oseriez le désavouer.
Je ne désavoue aucun de mes actes, aucune de mes paroles.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).