distancier
\dis.tɑ̃.sje\
The verdict
“distancier” is uncommon French (frequency #83,786 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,786
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Établir mentalement une distance vers quelque chose ou quelqu’un pour le regarder d’un œil extérieur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-distancier · distancier · French
distancier · rank #83,786 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,786
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH distal
Nearest frequency peer: distal (-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 « distancier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dioula
dioula
16,218 corpus weight
- distal
distal
16,216 corpus weight
- distancier
distancier
16,215 corpus weight
- distinguez
distinguez
16,214 corpus weight
- distribuez
distribuez
16,213 corpus weight
- divided
divided
16,212 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « distancier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | distancier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dis.tɑ̃.sje\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #83,786 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « distancier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
distancier is uncommon French at frequency #83,786 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \dis.tɑ̃.sje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for distancier in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is distancier, spelled D-I-S-T-A-N-C-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Établir mentalement une distance vers quelque chose ou quelqu’un pour le regarder d’un œil extérieur.
- 2Distancer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how distancier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le phénomène inverse existe aussi, lorsque les participants cherchent non pas à coopérer, mais à se démarquer, à se distancier les uns des autres.
À partir de ce jour, nos rapports se distancièrent considérablement.
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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