destrier
\dɛs.tʁi.je\
The verdict
“destrier” is uncommon French (frequency #62,193 among 404,891 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,193
- frequency rank, French
- 404,891
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Cheval de bataille au Moyen Âge.
| 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) |
Where “destrier” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
destrier is uncommon French at frequency #62,193 among 404,891 “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.
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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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Using “destrier”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-E-S-T-R-I-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \dɛs.tʁi.je\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.