desserre
\de.sɛʁ\
The verdict
“desserre” is uncommon French (frequency #74,706 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,706
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de desserrer, dans la locution à la desserre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desserre · desserre · French
desserre · rank #74,706 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,706
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH deluca
Nearest frequency peer: deluca (-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 « desserre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Deirdre
Deirdre
25,298 corpus weight
- delight
delight
25,297 corpus weight
- deluca
deluca
25,296 corpus weight
- desserre
desserre
25,295 corpus weight
- Deutscher
Deutscher
25,293 corpus weight
- dialectal
dialectal
25,291 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « desserre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desserre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.sɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,706 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « desserre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
desserre is uncommon French at frequency #74,706 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.sɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de desserrer, dans la locution à la desserre.".
desserre doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 desserre, spelled D-E-S-S-E-R-R-E.
Definition
- 1Action de desserrer, dans la locution à la desserre.
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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