désorientés

\de.zɔ.ʁjɑ̃.te\

/\de.zɔ.ʁjɑ̃.te\/ adj

The verdict

“désorientés” is uncommon French (frequency #69,032 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#69,032
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de désorienté.

Corpus desk

Index FR-desorientes · désorientés · French

désorientés · rank #69,032 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #69,032
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH désolante

Nearest frequency peer: désolante (-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 « désorientés »

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 « désorientés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for désorientés
PropertyValue
Headworddésorientés
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\de.zɔ.ʁjɑ̃.te\
Letters11
Frequency rank#69,032
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « désorientés » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).désorientéstombe 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: « désolante » (#69,031), « désœuvrés » (#69,033), « désobligeants » (#69,030). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « désorientés » est au #69,032. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

désorientés is uncommon French at frequency #69,032 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \de.zɔ.ʁjɑ̃.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de désorienté.".

désorientés has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is désorientés, spelled D-É-S-O-R-I-E-N-T-É-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de désorienté.

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 "désorientés"?
"désorientés" is spelled D-É-S-O-R-I-E-N-T-É-S. The IPA pronunciation is \de.zɔ.ʁjɑ̃.te\.
What does "désorientés" mean?
As an adjective, "désorientés" means: Masculin pluriel de désorienté.
How do you pronounce "désorientés"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "désorientés" is \de.zɔ.ʁjɑ̃.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list