destiner
\dɛs.ti.ne\
The verdict
“destiner” is uncommon French (frequency #63,669 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,669
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Affecter une personne ou une chose à tel ou tel emploi, à tel ou tel usage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-destiner · destiner · French
destiner · rank #63,669 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,669
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Desportes
Nearest frequency peer: Desportes (-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 « destiner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- deen
deen
36,334 corpus weight
- Desportes
Desportes
36,333 corpus weight
- destiner
destiner
36,332 corpus weight
- devantures
devantures
36,331 corpus weight
- devinerez
devinerez
36,330 corpus weight
- disk
disk
36,329 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « destiner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | destiner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dɛs.ti.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,669 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « destiner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
destiner is uncommon French at frequency #63,669 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \dɛs.ti.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for destiner, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 destiner, spelled D-E-S-T-I-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Affecter une personne ou une chose à tel ou tel emploi, à tel ou tel usage.
- 2Préparer, réserver.
- 3Fixer d’avance dans l’ordre des événements en parlant du destin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how destiner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une autre voiture à deux roues, […], était là aussi un peu à l’écart. Cette voiture était destinée, […], à recevoir le corps après le supplice et à le porter au cimetière.
Les opérations de broyage marquent usuellement le terme des opérations d’épuration des fines, que celles-ci soient destinées à l’agglomération ou à la carbonisation.
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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