dévisser
\de.vi.se\
The verdict
“dévisser” is uncommon French (frequency #59,250 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,250
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dégager une chose des vis qui servaient à la retenir, à la fixer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-devisser · dévisser · French
dévisser · rank #59,250 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,250
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dévisse
Nearest frequency peer: dévisse (-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 « dévisser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- développère…
développèrent
40,754 corpus weight
- déviances
déviances
40,753 corpus weight
- dévisse
dévisse
40,752 corpus weight
- dévisser
dévisser
40,751 corpus weight
- Eckert
Eckert
40,749 corpus weight
- Eda
Eda
40,748 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dévisser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dévisser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.vi.se\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,250 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dévisser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dévisser is uncommon French at frequency #59,250 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.vi.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for dévisser in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 dévisser, spelled D-É-V-I-S-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Dégager une chose des vis qui servaient à la retenir, à la fixer.
- 2Enlever ce qui est vissé.
- 3Chuter d’une paroi rocheuse ou glaciaire, sans être retenu par une corde.
- 4Diminuer brutalement, connaître une forte et soudaine chute.
- 5Rater complètement (un tir qui aurait dû se diriger vers le but).
- 6Effectuer un panoramique horizontal avec une caméra dans le sens anti-horaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dévisser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dévisser une serrure.
Cet outil sert à dévisser.
Synonyms
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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