déshériter
\de.ze.ʁi.te\
The verdict
“déshériter” is uncommon French (frequency #81,102 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,102
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Priver quelqu’un de la succession qu’on pourrait lui laisser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desheriter · déshériter · French
déshériter · rank #81,102 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,102
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Déry
Nearest frequency peer: Déry (-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 « déshériter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dépuceler
dépuceler
18,902 corpus weight
- déroulerait
déroulerait
18,901 corpus weight
- Déry
Déry
18,900 corpus weight
- déshériter
déshériter
18,899 corpus weight
- désintéress…
désintéressent
18,898 corpus weight
- détectant
détectant
18,897 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « déshériter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | déshériter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.ze.ʁi.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #81,102 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « déshériter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
déshériter is uncommon French at frequency #81,102 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.ze.ʁi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for déshériter in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is déshériter, spelled D-É-S-H-É-R-I-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Priver quelqu’un de la succession qu’on pourrait lui laisser.
- 2Mal doter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how déshériter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un père peut en certains cas déshériter ses enfants.
Son père l’a menacé de le déshériter.
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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