dévaloriser
\de.va.lɔ.ʁi.ze\
The verdict
“dévaloriser” is uncommon French (frequency #57,239 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,239
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Retirer de la valeur à.
Corpus desk
Index FR-devaloriser · dévaloriser · French
dévaloriser · rank #57,239 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,239
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH détestaient
Nearest frequency peer: détestaient (-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 « dévaloriser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- désespérante
désespérante
42,765 corpus weight
- déterre
déterre
42,764 corpus weight
- détestaient
détestaient
42,763 corpus weight
- dévaloriser
dévaloriser
42,762 corpus weight
- Emblem
Emblem
42,760 corpus weight
- embrouillée
embrouillée
42,759 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dévaloriser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dévaloriser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.va.lɔ.ʁi.ze\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #57,239 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dévaloriser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dévaloriser is uncommon French at frequency #57,239 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.va.lɔ.ʁi.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Retirer de la valeur à.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for dévaloriser, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is dévaloriser, spelled D-É-V-A-L-O-R-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Retirer de la valeur à.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dévaloriser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il ya des coups de pouce inutiles qui ont surtout pour effet de dévaloriser la méritocratie.
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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