désherbant
\de.zɛʁ.bɑ̃\
The verdict
“désherbant” is uncommon French (frequency #82,895 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,895
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Herbicide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desherbant · désherbant · French
désherbant · rank #82,895 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,895
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déroulèrent
Nearest frequency peer: déroulèrent (-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 « désherbant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dépérit
dépérit
17,109 corpus weight
- déroulèrent
déroulèrent
17,107 corpus weight
- désherbant
désherbant
17,106 corpus weight
- détresses
détresses
17,105 corpus weight
- dévalant
dévalant
17,104 corpus weight
- dînent
dînent
17,103 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « désherbant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | désherbant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.zɛʁ.bɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #82,895 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « désherbant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
désherbant is uncommon French at frequency #82,895 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.zɛʁ.bɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Herbicide.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for désherbant, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 désherbant, spelled D-É-S-H-E-R-B-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Herbicide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how désherbant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un désherbant sur lequel l'attention de nos lecteurs mérite d'être attirée, est le chlorate de soude, qui est un herbifuge énergique, et qui détruit toute végétation.
Les auteurs poursuivant leurs études concernant les possibilités d'application de désherbants chimiques sélectifs en culture de betterave industrielle relatent les résultats qu'ils ont obtenus en utilisant dans ce but le chloro-amino-phénylpyridazone (PCA) associé ou non à la cyclo-octyl-diméthylurée (OMU).
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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