dévaliser
\de.va.li.ze\
The verdict
“dévaliser” is uncommon French (frequency #55,917 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,917
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dépouiller quelqu’un de son argent, de ses effets, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-devaliser · dévaliser · French
dévaliser · rank #55,917 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,917
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH détectable
Nearest frequency peer: détectable (-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 « dévaliser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dérèglements
dérèglements
44,087 corpus weight
- désarmée
désarmée
44,086 corpus weight
- détectable
détectable
44,085 corpus weight
- dévaliser
dévaliser
44,084 corpus weight
- dévisage
dévisage
44,083 corpus weight
- déçoivent
déçoivent
44,082 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dévaliser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dévaliser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.va.li.ze\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #55,917 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dévaliser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dévaliser is uncommon French at frequency #55,917 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.va.li.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dévaliser, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 dévaliser, spelled D-É-V-A-L-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Dépouiller quelqu’un de son argent, de ses effets, etc.
- 2Acheter en abondance dans un magasin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dévaliser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], car enfin, pourquoi ce gredin se serait-il mis à mes trousses? . […]. Il m’a suivi comme il aurait suivi le premier venu, pour me dévaliser s'il en trouvait l'occasion, et il a cru la trouver dans ce coin sombre.
Des cambrioleurs pénétrèrent chez lui et le dévalisèrent complètement.
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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