désengager
\de.zɑ̃.ɡa.ʒe\
The verdict
“désengager” is uncommon French (frequency #58,571 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,571
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire cesser d’être engagé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desengager · désengager · French
désengager · rank #58,571 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,571
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déprécier
Nearest frequency peer: déprécier (-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 « désengager »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- démarrera
démarrera
41,433 corpus weight
- démasque
démasque
41,432 corpus weight
- déprécier
déprécier
41,431 corpus weight
- désengager
désengager
41,430 corpus weight
- détenez
détenez
41,429 corpus weight
- détourna
détourna
41,428 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « désengager » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | désengager |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.zɑ̃.ɡa.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #58,571 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « désengager » en français
Rare enough to double-check
désengager is uncommon French at frequency #58,571 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.zɑ̃.ɡa.ʒe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Faire cesser d’être engagé.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for désengager, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is désengager, spelled D-É-S-E-N-G-A-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire cesser d’être engagé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how désengager appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un état de neutralité : les gens se sont désengagés comme s’ils avaient décidé de se maintenir en dehors des hostilités actuelles, alors que depuis des décennies ils sont agressés, victimes de crises en série.
C’est la raison pour laquelle nous avons pris la décision de nous désengager.
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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