dessaler
\de.sa.le\
The verdict
“dessaler” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire qu’une chose ne soit plus aussi salée qu’elle l’était, ou qu’elle ne le soit plus du tout.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dessaler · dessaler · French
dessaler · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dessaler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.sa.le\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dessaler » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dessaler is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \de.sa.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for dessaler in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is dessaler, spelled D-E-S-S-A-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire qu’une chose ne soit plus aussi salée qu’elle l’était, ou qu’elle ne le soit plus du tout.
- 2Faire perdre la naïveté à quelqu’un, dégourdir, affranchir.
- 3En voile, chavirer avec un dériveur ou un catamaran du fait d'une gîte trop importante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dessaler 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.
Dessaler de la morue, des harengs. — Mettre du jambon à dessaler.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.