dévisager
\de.vi.za.ʒe\
The verdict
“dévisager” is uncommon French (frequency #64,408 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,408
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Regarder quelqu’un avec une attention curieuse et impertinente.
Corpus desk
Index FR-devisager · dévisager · French
dévisager · rank #64,408 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,408
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH désuètes
Nearest frequency peer: désuètes (-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 « dévisager »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dénotent
dénotent
35,597 corpus weight
- déraciner
déraciner
35,595 corpus weight
- désuètes
désuètes
35,594 corpus weight
- dévisager
dévisager
35,593 corpus weight
- eko
eko
35,591 corpus weight
- electrical
electrical
35,590 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dévisager » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dévisager |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.vi.za.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,408 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dévisager » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dévisager is uncommon French at frequency #64,408 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.vi.za.ʒe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Regarder quelqu’un avec une attention curieuse et impertinente.".
Zero misspellings are on record for dévisager in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 dévisager, spelled D-É-V-I-S-A-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Regarder quelqu’un avec une attention curieuse et impertinente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dévisager appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je la dévisageai en silence.
Longtemps cependant il s’était tu, se contentant, lorsqu’il les rencontrait, de dévisager sévèrement les coupables : ils avaient rougi les premières fois, mais avaient continué.
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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