dessalement
\dɛ.sal.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“dessalement” is uncommon French (frequency #67,435 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,435
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de dessaler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dessalement · dessalement · French
dessalement · rank #67,435 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,435
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Desaix
Nearest frequency peer: Desaix (-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 « dessalement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Denmark
Denmark
32,571 corpus weight
- dentée
dentée
32,570 corpus weight
- Desaix
Desaix
32,567 corpus weight
- dessalement
dessalement
32,566 corpus weight
- digérée
digérée
32,562 corpus weight
- dilatée
dilatée
32,561 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dessalement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dessalement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɛ.sal.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #67,435 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dessalement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dessalement is uncommon French at frequency #67,435 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɛ.sal.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
dessalement doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is dessalement, spelled D-E-S-S-A-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action de dessaler.
- 2Diminution de la salinité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dessalement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorsqu'on entreprend le dessalement d'une terre, il faut dessaler cette terre à fond; donner aux fossés la distance, la longueur et la pente convenables suivant la nature des terres à traiter, et enfin proportionner la surface à dessaler avec la quantité d'eau dont on peut disposer.
Les quatre pays du Golfe - Bahrein, Koweit, Arabie Saoudite et Émirats Arabes Unis - qui obtiennent 75 % de leur eau par dessalement de l'eau de mer - ont, en fait, si peu d'eau douce qu'ils recourent à un coûteux dessalement de l'eau de mer. Le vrai coût du dessalement et du transport de l'eau, certainement considérable, est un secret d'État en Arabie Sa…
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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