détergent
\de.tɛʁ.ʒɑ̃\
The verdict
“détergent” is uncommon French (frequency #51,428 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,428
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui possède des propriétés nettoyantes vis-à-vis d’une surface solide souillée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-detergent · détergent · French
détergent · rank #51,428 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,428
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH détériorée
Nearest frequency peer: détériorée (+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 « détergent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- déboutés
déboutés
48,577 corpus weight
- découpages
découpages
48,576 corpus weight
- défaitiste
défaitiste
48,575 corpus weight
- détergent
détergent
48,573 corpus weight
- détériorée
détériorée
48,572 corpus weight
- dévalorisat…
dévalorisation
48,571 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « détergent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | détergent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.tɛʁ.ʒɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #51,428 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « détergent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
détergent is uncommon French at frequency #51,428 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \de.tɛʁ.ʒɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
détergent 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, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is détergent, spelled D-É-T-E-R-G-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui possède des propriétés nettoyantes vis-à-vis d’une surface solide souillée.
- 2Qui déterge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how détergent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Huile détergente.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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