desde
[ˈdɛs̬.ðe]
The verdict
“desde” is uncommon French (frequency #73,894 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a preposition. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,894
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Depuis, dès, à partir de.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desde · desde · French
desde · rank #73,894 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,894
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH descendrait
Nearest frequency peer: descendrait (-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 « desde »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Deprez
Deprez
26,109 corpus weight
- descendrait
descendrait
26,108 corpus weight
- desde
desde
26,107 corpus weight
- deviendrons
deviendrons
26,105 corpus weight
- diablesse
diablesse
26,104 corpus weight
- diatomées
diatomées
26,103 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « desde » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | [ˈdɛs̬.ðe] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #73,894 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « desde » en français
Rare enough to double-check
desde is uncommon French at frequency #73,894 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as apreposition, transcribed [ˈdɛs̬.ðe]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Depuis, dès, à partir de.".
No misspelling variants are generated for desde in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is desde, spelled D-E-S-D-E.
Definition
- 1Depuis, dès, à partir de.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how desde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
desde que murió
Empieza desde línea 20
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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