dévalorisation
\de.va.lɔ.ʁi.za.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“dévalorisation” is uncommon French (frequency #51,430 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,430
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Perte de valeur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-devalorisation · dévalorisation · French
dévalorisation · rank #51,430 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,430
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH détériorée
Nearest frequency peer: détériorée (-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 « dévalorisation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- défaitiste
défaitiste
48,575 corpus weight
- détergent
détergent
48,573 corpus weight
- détériorée
détériorée
48,572 corpus weight
- dévalorisat…
dévalorisation
48,571 corpus weight
- Egmont
Egmont
48,568 corpus weight
- elektra
elektra
48,567 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dévalorisation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dévalorisation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.va.lɔ.ʁi.za.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #51,430 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dévalorisation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dévalorisation is uncommon French at frequency #51,430 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.va.lɔ.ʁi.za.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
dévalorisation has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is dévalorisation, spelled D-É-V-A-L-O-R-I-S-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Perte de valeur.
- 2Amoindrissement de la valeur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dévalorisation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La dévalorisation du diplôme sur le marché du travail est explicable à partir du décalage entre la forte croissance du nombre de diplômés et l’augmentation plus faible du nombre de positions sociales correspondant à ce niveau de qualification.
Quand elle comprend l’importance de rester fidèle à ses aspirations, elle mesure, avec le recul, toutes les conséquences de son attitude de dévalorisation tant sentimentalement que professionnellement.
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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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).