détenez
\de.tə.ne\
The verdict
“détenez” is uncommon French (frequency #58,572 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,572
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de détenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-detenez · détenez · French
détenez · rank #58,572 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,572
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH désengager
Nearest frequency peer: désengager (-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 « détenez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- démasque
démasque
41,432 corpus weight
- déprécier
déprécier
41,431 corpus weight
- désengager
désengager
41,430 corpus weight
- détenez
détenez
41,429 corpus weight
- détourna
détourna
41,428 corpus weight
- développero…
développeront
41,427 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « détenez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | détenez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.tə.ne\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,572 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « détenez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
détenez is uncommon French at frequency #58,572 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.tə.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for détenez, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 détenez, spelled D-É-T-E-N-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de détenir.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de détenir.
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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