determine
\dɪˈtɜː.mɪn\
The verdict
“determine” is uncommon French (frequency #75,590 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,590
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Décider, résoudre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-determine · determine · French
determine · rank #75,590 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,590
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Desplechin
Nearest frequency peer: Desplechin (-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 « determine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Desharnais
Desharnais
24,414 corpus weight
- Despentes
Despentes
24,413 corpus weight
- Desplechin
Desplechin
24,412 corpus weight
- determine
determine
24,411 corpus weight
- deuce
deuce
24,410 corpus weight
- devancière
devancière
24,408 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « determine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | determine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dɪˈtɜː.mɪn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,590 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « determine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
determine is uncommon French at frequency #75,590 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \dɪˈtɜː.mɪn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for determine, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is determine, spelled D-E-T-E-R-M-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Décider, résoudre.
- 2Déterminer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how determine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Write a program that implements Euclid's algorithm and uses it to determine the greatest common divisor of two integers entered by the user.
My first post-marathon longer run was 20 kilometres, which I felt was long enough to determine if I had recovered from the marathon.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).