difformité
\di.fɔʁ.mi.te\
The verdict
“difformité” is uncommon French (frequency #85,637 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,637
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Défaut très apparent dans la forme, dans les proportions.
Corpus desk
Index FR-difformite · difformité · French
difformité · rank #85,637 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,637
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH diapositive
Nearest frequency peer: diapositive (-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 « difformité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- deutsches
deutsches
14,367 corpus weight
- DFS
DFS
14,366 corpus weight
- diapositive
diapositive
14,365 corpus weight
- difformité
difformité
14,364 corpus weight
- dilatent
dilatent
14,363 corpus weight
- dirigiste
dirigiste
14,361 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « difformité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | difformité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.fɔʁ.mi.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #85,637 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « difformité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
difformité is uncommon French at frequency #85,637 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \di.fɔʁ.mi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Défaut très apparent dans la forme, dans les proportions.".
difformité has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 difformité, spelled D-I-F-F-O-R-M-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Défaut très apparent dans la forme, dans les proportions.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how difformité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les loupes, la bosse sont des difformités.
Les difformités de la taille.
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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