destrier
\dɛs.tʁi.je\
The verdict
“destrier” is uncommon French (frequency #62,193 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,193
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cheval de bataille au Moyen Âge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-destrier · destrier · French
destrier · rank #62,193 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,193
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH despotique
Nearest frequency peer: despotique (-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 « destrier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Desnos
Desnos
37,810 corpus weight
- despotique
despotique
37,809 corpus weight
- destrier
destrier
37,808 corpus weight
- developer
developer
37,806 corpus weight
- Dianne
Dianne
37,805 corpus weight
- diatribes
diatribes
37,804 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « destrier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | destrier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɛs.tʁi.je\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,193 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « destrier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
destrier is uncommon French at frequency #62,193 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɛs.tʁi.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cheval de bataille au Moyen Âge.".
destrier doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is destrier, spelled D-E-S-T-R-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Cheval de bataille au Moyen Âge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how destrier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le cheval d’armes ou dextrier, […] enfermé entre un mors et des éperons qui sont de véritables instruments de torture, doit être ménagé, et ce n’est qu’au moment de la charge que le chevalier le monte.
Une fois même, on rencontra une charrette attelée d’un cheval et une autre fois un adolescent à califourchon sur un destrier noir, en butte aux lazzis des passants.
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Antonyms
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).