dessèche
\de.sɛʃ\
The verdict
“dessèche” is uncommon French (frequency #65,854 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,854
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de dessécher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desseche · dessèche · French
dessèche · rank #65,854 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,854
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Deschênes
Nearest frequency peer: Deschênes (-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 « dessèche »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dentisterie
dentisterie
34,150 corpus weight
- dentées
dentées
34,149 corpus weight
- Deschênes
Deschênes
34,148 corpus weight
- dessèche
dessèche
34,147 corpus weight
- devops
devops
34,145 corpus weight
- dew
dew
34,144 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dessèche » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dessèche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.sɛʃ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,854 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dessèche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dessèche is uncommon French at frequency #65,854 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.sɛʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
dessèche doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 dessèche, spelled D-E-S-S-È-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de dessécher.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de dessécher.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de dessécher.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de dessécher.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de dessécher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dessèche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est essentiel d’empiler à propos ; si l’on empile trop tôt, la tourbe humide ne se dessèche jamais complètement : elle s’échauffe, et l’on est obligé, dans tous les cas, de désempiler au printemps suivant, et d’étendre de nouveau.
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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