désorientation
\de.zɔ.ʁjɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“désorientation” is uncommon French (frequency #65,904 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,904
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de désorienter, fait d’être désorienté, de perdre le sens de l’orientation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desorientation · désorientation · French
désorientation · rank #65,904 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,904
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH désolées
Nearest frequency peer: désolées (-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 « désorientation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- désenclaver
désenclaver
34,102 corpus weight
- déshonore
déshonore
34,100 corpus weight
- désolées
désolées
34,098 corpus weight
- désorientat…
désorientation
34,097 corpus weight
- déséquilibr…
déséquilibrer
34,096 corpus weight
- dévoiement
dévoiement
34,094 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « désorientation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | désorientation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.zɔ.ʁjɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #65,904 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « désorientation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
désorientation is uncommon French at frequency #65,904 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.zɔ.ʁjɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for désorientation in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is désorientation, spelled D-É-S-O-R-I-E-N-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de désorienter, fait d’être désorienté, de perdre le sens de l’orientation.
- 2Confusion
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how désorientation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle traduit cependant l'émiettement et la désorientation des trotskistes. Trotskistes français durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale sur Wikipédia.
Si l’urbaniste travaille à favoriser l’orientation à travers l’élaboration de plans et de cartes, l’errant recherche activement la désorientation.
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Antonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).