détricoter
\de.tʁi.kɔ.te\
The verdict
“détricoter” is uncommon French (frequency #78,374 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,374
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Défaire ce qui avait été tricoté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-detricoter · détricoter · French
détricoter · rank #78,374 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,374
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH détartrage
Nearest frequency peer: détartrage (-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 « détricoter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- désertées
désertées
21,630 corpus weight
- désinence
désinence
21,629 corpus weight
- détartrage
détartrage
21,628 corpus weight
- détricoter
détricoter
21,627 corpus weight
- ecology
ecology
21,625 corpus weight
- efforcée
efforcée
21,624 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « détricoter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | détricoter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.tʁi.kɔ.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #78,374 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « détricoter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
détricoter is uncommon French at frequency #78,374 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.tʁi.kɔ.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
détricoter doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is détricoter, spelled D-É-T-R-I-C-O-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Défaire ce qui avait été tricoté.
- 2Défaire ; déconstruire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how détricoter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il vous reste à vous détricoter, vous détricoter et vous détricoter jusqu’au plus profond de vous-même, là où tous les êtres humains sont simplement humains et se ressemblent.
[Titre] Le gouvernement américain détricote la loi protégeant les espèces menacées
Synonyms
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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