dessiccation
\de.si.ka.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“dessiccation” is uncommon French (frequency #83,774 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,774
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de dessécher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dessiccation · dessiccation · French
dessiccation · rank #83,774 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,774
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Desmarets
Nearest frequency peer: Desmarets (-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 « dessiccation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Dehaene
Dehaene
16,233 corpus weight
- dentelée
dentelée
16,230 corpus weight
- Desmarets
Desmarets
16,228 corpus weight
- dessiccation
dessiccation
16,227 corpus weight
- desséchées
desséchées
16,226 corpus weight
- diabolisé
diabolisé
16,222 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dessiccation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dessiccation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.si.ka.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #83,774 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dessiccation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dessiccation is uncommon French at frequency #83,774 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.si.ka.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
dessiccation doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dessiccation, spelled D-E-S-S-I-C-C-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de dessécher.
- 2Action de dessécher une plante par la pression ou autrement, pour la placer ensuite dans l’herbier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dessiccation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand l'orge est bien germée, on la porte dans une étuve à courant d'air chaud, appelée touraille ; la chaleur arrête immédiatement la germination. En tamisant les grains, on en sépare les petites radicelles ou touraillons, que la dessiccation a rendues très-cassantes.
La dessiccation détermine la disjonction des élatères (fig.61), tandis que l'action de l'humidité les ramène enroulées autour de la spore (fig.62), […].
Synonyms
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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).