désherber
\de.zɛʁ.be\
The verdict
“désherber” is uncommon French (frequency #86,654 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,654
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Débarrasser des herbes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desherber · désherber · French
désherber · rank #86,654 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,654
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dériveur
Nearest frequency peer: dériveur (-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 « désherber »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- déprécie
déprécie
13,350 corpus weight
- dérangées
dérangées
13,349 corpus weight
- dériveur
dériveur
13,348 corpus weight
- désherber
désherber
13,347 corpus weight
- déstabilise…
déstabilisent
13,346 corpus weight
- détachait
détachait
13,345 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « désherber » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | désherber |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.zɛʁ.be\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #86,654 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « désherber » en français
Rare enough to double-check
désherber is uncommon French at frequency #86,654 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.zɛʁ.be\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for désherber, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is désherber, spelled D-É-S-H-E-R-B-E-R.
Definition
- 1Débarrasser des herbes.
- 2Épandre un herbicide, un désherbant, sur une culture, un champ, une vigne, un verger, etc.
- 3Faire de la place dans une bibliothèque en éliminant des ouvrages, en renouvelant des collections, en faisant le tri dans les titres pour en accueillir de nouveau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how désherber appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est semé et désherbé avec le robot.
Désherber un champ de blé avec un herbicide de prélevée.
Antonyms
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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