désuétude
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#32,796
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
désuétude is aFrenchnoun. It means: État de cessation d’un usage, d’une habitude. Se dit surtout en parlant des lois ou des règlements qu’on a cessé d’observer sans qu’ils n’aient formellement été révoqués. Pronounced \de.zɥe.tyd\. Often confused with désuète.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | désuétude |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.zɥe.tyd\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #32,796 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for désuétude is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.zɥe.tyd\. Corpus data places it at rank #32,796 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for désuétude, with forms such as "ddésuétude", "desuetude", and "dséuétude". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "désuète", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is désuétude, spelled D-É-S-U-É-T-U-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1État de cessation d’un usage, d’une habitude. Se dit surtout en parlant des lois ou des règlements qu’on a cessé d’observer sans qu’ils n’aient formellement été révoqués.
- 2Se dit d'un mot dont l’emploi est sorti de l'usage courant, et qui n'est plus immédiatement compris.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddésuétude,desuetude,dséuétude,déssuétude,désutéude,désuétdue,désuéttude,désuétudde,désuétued,désuéutde,déséutude,déusétude,édsuétude
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for désuétude
Misspelling Variants of "désuétude"
Frequency rank: #32,796 in French
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Nearby French words
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