détourna
\de.tuʁ.na\
The verdict
“détourna” is uncommon French (frequency #58,573 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,573
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de détourner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-detourna · détourna · French
détourna · rank #58,573 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,573
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH détenez
Nearest frequency peer: détenez (-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 « détourna »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- Easton
Easton
41,426 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « détourna » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | détourna |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.tuʁ.na\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,573 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « détourna » en français
Rare enough to double-check
détourna is uncommon French at frequency #58,573 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.tuʁ.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de détourner.".
détourna doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is détourna, spelled D-É-T-O-U-R-N-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de détourner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how détourna appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Trompe que fringuait un lardeusse beige et un Borsalino noir se détourna à la seconde alors qu’il se préparait à réclamer le cordon à la bignole de son immeuble.
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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