détox
\de.tɔks\
The verdict
“détox” is uncommon French (frequency #52,647 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,647
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Désintoxication, élimination des toxines.
Corpus desk
Index FR-detox · détox · French
détox · rank #52,647 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,647
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH détonations
Nearest frequency peer: détonations (-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 « détox »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- désintégrer
désintégrer
47,357 corpus weight
- détestation
détestation
47,356 corpus weight
- détonations
détonations
47,355 corpus weight
- détox
détox
47,354 corpus weight
- détruirait
détruirait
47,353 corpus weight
- développez
développez
47,352 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « détox » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | détox |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.tɔks\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #52,647 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « détox » en français
Rare enough to double-check
détox is uncommon French at frequency #52,647 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.tɔks\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Désintoxication, élimination des toxines.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for détox, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is détox, spelled D-É-T-O-X.
Definition
- 1Désintoxication, élimination des toxines.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how détox appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Côté gourmandise – parce que détox ne rime pas avec « fadeur » –, vous découvrirez de nombreuses recettes de légumes et jus ultra-vitaminés !
Envie de détox, de sport et de frugalité.
This word in other languages
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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