decorous
dec·or·ous/ˈdɛkəɹəs/adjective
decorous is spelled D-E-C-O-R-O-U-S, 3 syllables: dec·or·ous. The wrong spelling people search most is decourous: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 24 of all searches for the word. Decorous is an adjective meaning “Marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards…”.
How many letters and syllables are in decorous?
| Letters | 8: D-E-C-O-R-O-U-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: dec·or·ous |
| In writing | about once in every 10 million words; the 97,057th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, decourous, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell decorous?
Decorous is spelled D-E-C-O-R-O-U-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 24 of the searches for decorous in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is decorous?
Decorous appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 97,057th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce decorous?
- US /ˈdɛkəɹəs/
- US /ˈdɛkɹəs/
- US /dɪˈkɔːɹəs/
Decorous has 3 syllables, split dec·or·ous in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-decorous.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of decorous
- more decorous comparative
- most decorous superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does decorous mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accordance with accepted standards; becoming, seemly.
- 2
obsoleteAppropriate, suitable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Decorous in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense marked by behaviour, manners, etc., regarded as proper, tasteful, and in accorda:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | bienséant |
| German | anständig, geziemend, schicklich |
| Spanish | decoroso |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.