dévêtir
\de.vɛ.tiʁ\
The verdict
“dévêtir” is uncommon French (frequency #73,945 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,945
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ôter les vêtements
Corpus desk
Index FR-devetir · dévêtir · French
dévêtir · rank #73,945 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,945
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH détections
Nearest frequency peer: détections (-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 « dévêtir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- désobligean…
désobligeantes
26,060 corpus weight
- désobéit
désobéit
26,059 corpus weight
- détectables
détectables
26,058 corpus weight
- détections
détections
26,057 corpus weight
- dévêtir
dévêtir
26,056 corpus weight
- ECN
ECN
26,053 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dévêtir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dévêtir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.vɛ.tiʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,945 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dévêtir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dévêtir is uncommon French at frequency #73,945 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.vɛ.tiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
dévêtir doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 dévêtir, spelled D-É-V-Ê-T-I-R.
Definition
- 1Ôter les vêtements
- 2Se dépouiller de tout ou partie de ses vêtements.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dévêtir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Enfin, sur l’ordre du docteur, on transporta dans la salle de mairie le funèbre colis que deux hommes dévoués dévêtirent et fouillèrent.
Nous allons vous dévêtir, monsieur Tricotin, ce qui veut dire que nous allons vous désentraver et vous décamisoler.
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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