desperados
\dɛs.pʁa.do\
The verdict
“desperados” is uncommon French (frequency #98,959 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,959
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de desperado.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desperados · desperados · French
desperados · rank #98,959 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,959
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH descendrai
Nearest frequency peer: descendrai (-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 « desperados »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Delille
Delille
1,048 corpus weight
- descendrai
descendrai
1,043 corpus weight
- desperados
desperados
1,042 corpus weight
- Diaghilev
Diaghilev
1,039 corpus weight
- dialoguiste
dialoguiste
1,038 corpus weight
- dichotomique
dichotomique
1,037 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « desperados » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desperados |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɛs.pʁa.do\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #98,959 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « desperados » en français
Rare enough to double-check
desperados is uncommon French at frequency #98,959 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɛs.pʁa.do\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de desperado.".
desperados has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is desperados, spelled D-E-S-P-E-R-A-D-O-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de desperado.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how desperados appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
– Si jamais il raconte ça, notre réputation de desperados est fichue à jamais.
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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