désuètes
\de.zɥɛt\
The verdict
“désuètes” is uncommon French (frequency #64,407 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,407
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de désuet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desuetes · désuètes · French
désuètes · rank #64,407 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,407
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déraciner
Nearest frequency peer: déraciner (-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 « désuètes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- déménageur
déménageur
35,598 corpus weight
- dénotent
dénotent
35,597 corpus weight
- déraciner
déraciner
35,595 corpus weight
- désuètes
désuètes
35,594 corpus weight
- dévisager
dévisager
35,593 corpus weight
- eko
eko
35,591 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « désuètes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | désuètes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.zɥɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,407 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « désuètes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
désuètes is uncommon French at frequency #64,407 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \de.zɥɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de désuet.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for désuètes, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 désuètes, spelled D-É-S-U-È-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de désuet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how désuètes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’instructeur américain, M. Griser, a obtenu là des résultats absolument remarquables qui démontrent, une fois de plus, la facilité avec laquelle on peut enseigner le crawl américain aux débutants qui n’ont jamais pratiqué de nages désuètes comme la brasse ou le trudgeon.
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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