déshonorer
\de.zɔ.nɔ.ʁe\
The verdict
“déshonorer” is uncommon French (frequency #61,482 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,482
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire perdre l’honneur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deshonorer · déshonorer · French
déshonorer · rank #61,482 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,482
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH désagrégation
Nearest frequency peer: désagrégation (-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 « déshonorer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- déplaces
déplaces
38,522 corpus weight
- désagrégati…
désagrégation
38,520 corpus weight
- déshonorer
déshonorer
38,519 corpus weight
- désobéi
désobéi
38,518 corpus weight
- désorganisée
désorganisée
38,517 corpus weight
- dévale
dévale
38,516 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « déshonorer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | déshonorer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.zɔ.nɔ.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #61,482 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « déshonorer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
déshonorer is uncommon French at frequency #61,482 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.zɔ.nɔ.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for déshonorer, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is déshonorer, spelled D-É-S-H-O-N-O-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire perdre l’honneur.
- 2Commettre une action, mener une vie qui fait déshonneur à sa famille, à son pays, etc.
- 3Dégénérer de la vertu de ses ancêtres : faire déshonneur à leur mémoire.
- 4Abuser sexuellement d’une femme, d'une fille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how déshonorer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les républicains triomphants ne déshonorèrent pas leur triomphe : ils veillèrent eux-mêmes à la sûreté de la bourgeoisie, qui tremblait pour sa vie et pour ses biens.
J’ai vu, en effet, trop d’écrivains déshonorer leur talent en faisant des imitations d’eux-mêmes.
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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