détournes
\de.tuʁn\
The verdict
“détournes” is uncommon French (frequency #91,633 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,633
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de détourner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-detournes · détournes · French
détournes · rank #91,633 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,633
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH détaillait
Nearest frequency peer: détaillait (-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 « détournes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- démoralisés
démoralisés
8,372 corpus weight
- désarmante
désarmante
8,371 corpus weight
- désunis
désunis
8,370 corpus weight
- détaillait
détaillait
8,369 corpus weight
- détournes
détournes
8,368 corpus weight
- Eastbourne
Eastbourne
8,366 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « détournes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | détournes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.tuʁn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #91,633 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « détournes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
détournes is uncommon French at frequency #91,633 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.tuʁn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for détournes, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is détournes, spelled D-É-T-O-U-R-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de détourner.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de détourner.
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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