désespérez
\de.zɛs.pe.ʁe\
The verdict
“désespérez” is uncommon French (frequency #79,259 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,259
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de désespérer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desesperez · désespérez · French
désespérez · rank #79,259 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,259
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH désobéissant
Nearest frequency peer: désobéissant (+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 « désespérez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- désamiantage
désamiantage
20,746 corpus weight
- désespérez
désespérez
20,742 corpus weight
- désobéissant
désobéissant
20,741 corpus weight
- désorganiser
désorganiser
20,740 corpus weight
- détracteur
détracteur
20,739 corpus weight
- easing
easing
20,738 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « désespérez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | désespérez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.zɛs.pe.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #79,259 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « désespérez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
désespérez is uncommon French at frequency #79,259 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.zɛs.pe.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for désespérez, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is désespérez, spelled D-É-S-E-S-P-É-R-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de désespérer.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de désespérer.
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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