déshonnêteté
\de.zɔ.nɛ.t(ə).te\
The verdict
“déshonnêteté” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fait d’être déshonnête ; indécence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deshonnetete · déshonnêteté · French
déshonnêteté · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | déshonnêteté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.zɔ.nɛ.t(ə).te\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
déshonnêteté is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.zɔ.nɛ.t(ə).te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
déshonnêteté doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented 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 déshonnêteté, spelled D-É-S-H-O-N-N-Ê-T-E-T-É.
Definition
- 1Fait d’être déshonnête ; indécence.
- 2Synonyme de malhonnêteté ; improbité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how déshonnêteté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Qu’il me soit reproché d’avoir placé ma confiance en de tels crapauds dont la déshonnêteté vient d’éclater ; qu’il me soit reproché ma faiblesse de n’en avoir point fait rouer une bonne douzaine, je souscrirai à la semonce […]
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.