dessécher
\de.se.ʃe\
The verdict
“dessécher” is uncommon French (frequency #66,656 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,656
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre sec.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dessecher · dessécher · French
dessécher · rank #66,656 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,656
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH descent
Nearest frequency peer: descent (-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 « dessécher »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- deniz
deniz
33,350 corpus weight
- dentu
dentu
33,349 corpus weight
- descent
descent
33,346 corpus weight
- dessécher
dessécher
33,345 corpus weight
- diasporas
diasporas
33,344 corpus weight
- Dietz
Dietz
33,342 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dessécher » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dessécher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.se.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,656 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dessécher » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dessécher is uncommon French at frequency #66,656 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.se.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dessécher, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dessécher, spelled D-E-S-S-É-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre sec.
- 2Mettre à sec.
- 3Exténuer, amaigrir, consumer.
- 4Rendre sec, peu fourni.
- 5Devenir sec.
- 6Désirer quelque chose avec impatience, au point d’en maigrir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dessécher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous verrez des femmes faisant du bois, c’est-à-dire collant des bouses de vache le long des murs pour les dessécher et les entasser comme les mottes à Paris ; puis, l’hiver, on se chauffe de ce bois-là.
Dessécher les fossés d’une ville.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).