désorienter
\de.zɔ.ʁjɑ̃.te\
The verdict
“désorienter” is uncommon French (frequency #93,711 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,711
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Priver de la connaissance du véritable côté du ciel où le soleil se lève, par rapport au pays où l’on est.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desorienter · désorienter · French
désorienter · rank #93,711 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,711
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déshabillage
Nearest frequency peer: déshabillage (-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 « désorienter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dépossédée
dépossédée
6,293 corpus weight
- désactivant
désactivant
6,292 corpus weight
- déshabillage
déshabillage
6,291 corpus weight
- désorienter
désorienter
6,290 corpus weight
- désosser
désosser
6,289 corpus weight
- déterminons
déterminons
6,288 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « désorienter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | désorienter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.zɔ.ʁjɑ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #93,711 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « désorienter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
désorienter is uncommon French at frequency #93,711 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.zɔ.ʁjɑ̃.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for désorienter, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 désorienter, spelled D-É-S-O-R-I-E-N-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Priver de la connaissance du véritable côté du ciel où le soleil se lève, par rapport au pays où l’on est.
- 2Rendre incertain, hésitant sur le chemin qu’on doit prendre, sur ce qu’il faut faire, sur la manière dont on doit se comporter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how désorienter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous étions sans boussole, la brume acheva de nous désorienter.
L’analyse des boîtes noires de l’appareil, repêchées un mois plus tard, a confirmé que les pilotes, désorientés par le givrage des sondes de vitesse Pitot, n’ont pu rattraper le décrochage de l’appareil, qui a eu lieu en moins de cinq minutes.
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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