destroy
\dis.tʁɔj\
The verdict
“destroy” is uncommon French (frequency #55,191 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,191
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fou, dérangé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-destroy · destroy · French
destroy · rank #55,191 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,191
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Desrosiers
Nearest frequency peer: Desrosiers (-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 « destroy »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Damiens
Damiens
44,814 corpus weight
- Dardenne
Dardenne
44,813 corpus weight
- Desrosiers
Desrosiers
44,811 corpus weight
- destroy
destroy
44,810 corpus weight
- destroyers
destroyers
44,809 corpus weight
- deviendras
deviendras
44,808 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « destroy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | destroy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dis.tʁɔj\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,191 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « destroy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
destroy is uncommon French at frequency #55,191 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dis.tʁɔj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fou, dérangé.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for destroy, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 destroy, spelled D-E-S-T-R-O-Y.
Definition
- 1Fou, dérangé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how destroy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est destroy grave = « Il est complètement zinzin ».
Bordel, Tic & Tac, vous en avez pas marre de vous mettre votre race toutes les nuits ? Debout, bougez votre cul de punks destroy !
Synonyms
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).