dévaluer
\de.va.lɥe\
The verdict
“dévaluer” is uncommon French (frequency #60,739 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,739
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Déprécier, faire perdre de la valeur à.
Corpus desk
Index FR-devaluer · dévaluer · French
dévaluer · rank #60,739 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,739
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH détonne
Nearest frequency peer: détonne (-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 « dévaluer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- désherbage
désherbage
39,266 corpus weight
- déshydratée
déshydratée
39,265 corpus weight
- désintéress…
désintéresser
39,264 corpus weight
- détonne
détonne
39,263 corpus weight
- dévaluer
dévaluer
39,262 corpus weight
- dévot
dévot
39,261 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dévaluer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dévaluer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.va.lɥe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,739 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dévaluer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dévaluer is uncommon French at frequency #60,739 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.va.lɥe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for dévaluer in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is dévaluer, spelled D-É-V-A-L-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Déprécier, faire perdre de la valeur à.
- 2Diminuer le taux de change (d’une monnaie) par rapport à une monnaie de référence (ou à un panier de monnaies).
Antonyms
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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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