désosser
\de.zɔ.se\
The verdict
“désosser” is uncommon French (frequency #93,712 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,712
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dégarnir un animal de ses os, par exemple quand on veut mettre sa chair en pâté ou la remplir d’un hachis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desosser · désosser · French
désosser · rank #93,712 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,712
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH désorienter
Nearest frequency peer: désorienter (-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 « désosser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- détiendrait
détiendrait
6,287 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « désosser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | désosser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.zɔ.se\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #93,712 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « désosser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
désosser is uncommon French at frequency #93,712 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.zɔ.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for désosser, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is désosser, spelled D-É-S-O-S-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Dégarnir un animal de ses os, par exemple quand on veut mettre sa chair en pâté ou la remplir d’un hachis.
- 2Démonter, mettre en morceaux quelque chose.
- 3Retirer une partie de la consistance d’un projet de texte législatif.
- 4Démolir complètement dans une bagarre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how désosser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je vais désosser le poulet.
La casse, avec ses épaves que l’on désosse sans toujours bien savoir comment s’y prendre, […]
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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