désespérait
\de.zɛs.pe.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“désespérait” is uncommon French (frequency #94,739 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,739
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de désespérer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desesperait · désespérait · French
désespérait · rank #94,739 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,739
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déresponsabil…
Nearest frequency peer: déresponsabilisation (-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 « désespérait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dépoussiéra…
dépoussiérage
5,265 corpus weight
- déprogrammé
déprogrammé
5,264 corpus weight
- déresponsab…
déresponsabilisation
5,263 corpus weight
- désespérait
désespérait
5,262 corpus weight
- déshabillent
déshabillent
5,261 corpus weight
- déstructura…
déstructuration
5,260 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « désespérait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | désespérait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.zɛs.pe.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #94,739 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « désespérait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
désespérait is uncommon French at frequency #94,739 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.zɛs.pe.ʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de désespérer.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for désespérait, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is désespérait, spelled D-É-S-E-S-P-É-R-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de désespérer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how désespérait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme pendant sa jeunesse il avait été manégé par quelques-unes des femmes les plus spirituelles de la cour de Louis XV, il ne désespérait pas trop de préserver la comtesse de tout encombre…
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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