déshérence
\de.ze.ʁɑ̃s\
The verdict
“déshérence” is uncommon French (frequency #59,972 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,972
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Défaut d’héritiers naturels par suite duquel une succession revient à l’État.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desherence · déshérence · French
déshérence · rank #59,972 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,972
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH désabusée
Nearest frequency peer: désabusée (-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 « déshérence »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- déniche
déniche
40,032 corpus weight
- dépensier
dépensier
40,031 corpus weight
- désabusée
désabusée
40,030 corpus weight
- déshérence
déshérence
40,029 corpus weight
- désinvestis…
désinvestissement
40,028 corpus weight
- détraqués
détraqués
40,027 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « déshérence » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | déshérence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.ze.ʁɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #59,972 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « déshérence » en français
Rare enough to double-check
déshérence is uncommon French at frequency #59,972 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.ze.ʁɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for déshérence, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is déshérence, spelled D-É-S-H-É-R-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Défaut d’héritiers naturels par suite duquel une succession revient à l’État.
- 2Disparition de la continuité d’une organisation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how déshérence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les biens civils acquis par le condamné depuis la mort civile encourue et dont il se trouvera en possession au jour de sa mort naturelle, appartiendront à la nation par droit de déshérence.
Une étrange contagion, en ces contrées, s’était emparée des esprits. Pas d’enfants ! Aujourd’hui, tous les biens, ici, tombent en déshérence !
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).