discerne
\di.sɛʁn\
The verdict
“discerne” is uncommon French (frequency #64,374 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,374
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de discerner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-discerne · discerne · French
discerne · rank #64,374 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,374
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH diluées
Nearest frequency peer: diluées (-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 « discerne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- desséchée
desséchée
35,630 corpus weight
- dict
dict
35,629 corpus weight
- diluées
diluées
35,628 corpus weight
- discerne
discerne
35,627 corpus weight
- diver
diver
35,625 corpus weight
- divide
divide
35,624 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « discerne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | discerne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \di.sɛʁn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,374 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « discerne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
discerne is uncommon French at frequency #64,374 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \di.sɛʁn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
discerne has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 discerne, spelled D-I-S-C-E-R-N-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de discerner.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de discerner.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de discerner.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de discerner.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de discerner.
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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