déshydrater

\de.zi.dʁa.te\

/\de.zi.dʁa.te\/ verb

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The verdict

“déshydrater” is uncommon French (frequency #90,672 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#90,672
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enlever à un corps une partie ou la totalité de l'eau qu'il contient.

Corpus desk

Index FR-deshydrater · déshydrater · French

déshydrater · rank #90,672 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #90,672
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH désamorce

Nearest frequency peer: désamorce (-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 « déshydrater »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « déshydrater » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for déshydrater
PropertyValue
Headworddéshydrater
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\de.zi.dʁa.te\
Letters11
Frequency rank#90,672
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « déshydrater » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).déshydratertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « désamorce » (#90,671), « désobligeante » (#90,673), « désagréablement » (#90,670). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « déshydrater » est au #90,672. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

déshydrater is uncommon French at frequency #90,672 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.zi.dʁa.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for déshydrater in our 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 no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is déshydrater, spelled D-É-S-H-Y-D-R-A-T-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Enlever à un corps une partie ou la totalité de l'eau qu'il contient.
  2. 2
    Enlever à un organisme, à la peau une partie de l'eau qu'il contient.
  3. 3
    Avoir besoin de boire.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how déshydrater appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Au contraire, l’acide de Reychler déshydrate quantitativement le paraméthylcyclohexanol vers 120°.
  2. D'une façon générale, il faut se méfier du vent qui déshydrate.

Synonyms

assécherdrainerlyophiliser

Antonyms

hydraterhumidifier

This word in other languages

dehydrate(English)deshidratar(Español)entwässern(Deutsch)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "déshydrater"?
"déshydrater" is spelled D-É-S-H-Y-D-R-A-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \de.zi.dʁa.te\.
What does "déshydrater" mean?
As a verb, "déshydrater" means: Enlever à un corps une partie ou la totalité de l'eau qu'il contient.
How do you pronounce "déshydrater"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "déshydrater" is \de.zi.dʁa.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "déshydrater" come from?
"déshydrater" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "déshydrater", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

délégitimer#90,661effractions#90,683dégageaient#90,658déconcerter#90,656

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list