désertent
\de.zɛʁt\
The verdict
“désertent” is uncommon French (frequency #55,232 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,232
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de déserter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desertent · désertent · French
désertent · rank #55,232 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,232
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH désamour
Nearest frequency peer: désamour (-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 « désertent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dépossession
dépossession
44,773 corpus weight
- désabusés
désabusés
44,771 corpus weight
- désamour
désamour
44,770 corpus weight
- désertent
désertent
44,769 corpus weight
- dévouer
dévouer
44,768 corpus weight
- ear
ear
44,767 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « désertent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | désertent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.zɛʁt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #55,232 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « désertent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
désertent is uncommon French at frequency #55,232 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.zɛʁt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for désertent in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is désertent, spelled D-É-S-E-R-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de déserter.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de déserter.
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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