distancée
\dis.tɑ̃.se\
The verdict
“distancée” is uncommon French (frequency #97,865 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,865
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de distancer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-distancee · distancée · French
distancée · rank #97,865 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,865
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dissuadera
Nearest frequency peer: dissuadera (-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 « distancée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dispersa
dispersa
2,139 corpus weight
- dissipera
dissipera
2,138 corpus weight
- dissuadera
dissuadera
2,137 corpus weight
- distancée
distancée
2,136 corpus weight
- distributive
distributive
2,135 corpus weight
- divergeant
divergeant
2,134 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « distancée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | distancée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dis.tɑ̃.se\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #97,865 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « distancée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
distancée is uncommon French at frequency #97,865 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \dis.tɑ̃.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de distancer.".
distancée has no tracked misspelling variants, 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 nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is distancée, spelled D-I-S-T-A-N-C-É-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier de distancer.
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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