déterre
\de.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“déterre” is uncommon French (frequency #57,237 among 404,891 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,237
- frequency rank, French
- 404,891
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de déterrer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | déterre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,237 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “déterre” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
déterre is uncommon French at frequency #57,237 among 404,891 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for déterre, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 déterre, spelled D-É-T-E-R-R-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de déterrer.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de déterrer.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de déterrer.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de déterrer.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de déterrer.
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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Using “déterre”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-É-T-E-R-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \de.tɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.