fragmenter
\fʁaɡ.mɑ̃.te\
The verdict
“fragmenter” is uncommon French (frequency #75,704 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,704
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mettre à l’état de fragments.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fragmenter · fragmenter · French
fragmenter · rank #75,704 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,704
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fragilisent
Nearest frequency peer: fragilisent (-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 « fragmenter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fourguer
fourguer
24,300 corpus weight
- foxtrot
foxtrot
24,299 corpus weight
- fragilisent
fragilisent
24,298 corpus weight
- fragmenter
fragmenter
24,297 corpus weight
- fraternelles
fraternelles
24,295 corpus weight
- fraterniser
fraterniser
24,294 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fragmenter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fragmenter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fʁaɡ.mɑ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #75,704 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fragmenter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fragmenter is uncommon French at frequency #75,704 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fʁaɡ.mɑ̃.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mettre à l’état de fragments.".
Zero misspellings are on record for fragmenter in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is fragmenter, spelled F-R-A-G-M-E-N-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mettre à l’état de fragments.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fragmenter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai donc repris la file des passants […] et nous avançâmes par saccades à cause des boutiques dont chaque étalage fragmentait la foule.
L'avantage de fragmenter le bois raméal réside dans l'augmentation des surfaces de contact pour les décomposeurs et l'établissement de conditions abiotiques propices à l'évolution des populations microbiennes, ce qui est de nature à favoriser l'incorporation des composés azotés au sol.
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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