despotes
\dɛs.pɔt\
The verdict
“despotes” is uncommon French (frequency #68,197 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,197
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de despote.
Corpus desk
Index FR-despotes · despotes · French
despotes · rank #68,197 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,197
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dewar
Nearest frequency peer: dewar (+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 « despotes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- demeurons
demeurons
31,808 corpus weight
- demonstrati…
demonstration
31,807 corpus weight
- Desbordes
Desbordes
31,806 corpus weight
- despotes
despotes
31,804 corpus weight
- dewar
dewar
31,803 corpus weight
- Dieng
Dieng
31,802 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « despotes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | despotes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɛs.pɔt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,197 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « despotes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
despotes is uncommon French at frequency #68,197 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɛs.pɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de despote.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for despotes in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is despotes, spelled D-E-S-P-O-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de despote.
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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