désobéissant
\de.zɔ.be.i.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“désobéissant” is uncommon French (frequency #79,260 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,260
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui désobéit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desobeissant · désobéissant · French
désobéissant · rank #79,260 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,260
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH désespérez
Nearest frequency peer: désespérez (-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 « désobéissant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- désamiantage
désamiantage
20,746 corpus weight
- désespérez
désespérez
20,742 corpus weight
- désobéissant
désobéissant
20,741 corpus weight
- désorganiser
désorganiser
20,740 corpus weight
- détracteur
détracteur
20,739 corpus weight
- easing
easing
20,738 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « désobéissant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | désobéissant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.zɔ.be.i.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #79,260 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « désobéissant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
désobéissant is uncommon French at frequency #79,260 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \de.zɔ.be.i.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui désobéit.".
désobéissant doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is désobéissant, spelled D-É-S-O-B-É-I-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui désobéit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how désobéissant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fils désobéissant. - Fille désobéissante.
Antonyms
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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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).