dessines
\de.sin\
The verdict
“dessines” is uncommon French (frequency #57,207 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,207
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de dessiner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dessines · dessines · French
dessines · rank #57,207 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,207
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH descendantes
Nearest frequency peer: descendantes (-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 « dessines »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dawa
dawa
42,797 corpus weight
- Descamps
Descamps
42,796 corpus weight
- descendantes
descendantes
42,795 corpus weight
- dessines
dessines
42,794 corpus weight
- devices
devices
42,793 corpus weight
- diffusez
diffusez
42,791 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dessines » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dessines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.sin\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,207 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dessines » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dessines is uncommon French at frequency #57,207 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.sin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for dessines in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 dessines, spelled D-E-S-S-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de dessiner.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de dessiner.
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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