desséchée
\de.se.ʃe\
The verdict
“desséchée” is uncommon French (frequency #64,371 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,371
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de desséché.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dessechee · desséchée · French
desséchée · rank #64,371 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,371
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH denture
Nearest frequency peer: denture (-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 « desséchée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Delga
Delga
35,633 corpus weight
- denture
denture
35,631 corpus weight
- desséchée
desséchée
35,630 corpus weight
- dict
dict
35,629 corpus weight
- diluées
diluées
35,628 corpus weight
- discerne
discerne
35,627 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « desséchée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desséchée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.se.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « desséchée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
desséchée is uncommon French at frequency #64,371 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \de.se.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de desséché.".
No misspelling variants are generated for desséchée in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is desséchée, spelled D-E-S-S-É-C-H-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de desséché.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how desséchée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tartous Hama, en smoking d’ottoman blanc, une rose desséchée à sa boutonnière, pieds et poings liés, le visage convulsé et bleu, les yeux exorbités.
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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