détournez
\de.tuʁ.ne\
The verdict
“détournez” is uncommon French (frequency #77,463 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,463
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de détourner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-detournez · détournez · French
détournez · rank #77,463 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,463
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH détonnant
Nearest frequency peer: détonnant (-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 « détournez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- déshydratés
déshydratés
22,543 corpus weight
- désiriez
désiriez
22,542 corpus weight
- désistements
désistements
22,541 corpus weight
- déterminism…
déterminismes
22,540 corpus weight
- détonnant
détonnant
22,539 corpus weight
- détournez
détournez
22,538 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « détournez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | détournez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.tuʁ.ne\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,463 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « détournez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
détournez is uncommon French at frequency #77,463 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.tuʁ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for détournez in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is détournez, spelled D-É-T-O-U-R-N-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de détourner.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif 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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