distinguez
\dis.tɛ̃.ɡe\
The verdict
“distinguez” is uncommon French (frequency #83,787 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,787
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de distinguer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-distinguez · distinguez · French
distinguez · rank #83,787 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,787
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH distancier
Nearest frequency peer: distancier (-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 « distinguez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- Djo
Djo
16,211 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « distinguez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | distinguez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dis.tɛ̃.ɡe\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #83,787 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « distinguez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
distinguez is uncommon French at frequency #83,787 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \dis.tɛ̃.ɡe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
distinguez has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 distinguez, spelled D-I-S-T-I-N-G-U-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de distinguer.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de distinguer.
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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