decrecer
[d̪ekɾeˈseɾ]
The verdict
“decrecer” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #87,697 among 4,885 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,697
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Perder o ir agotándose en tamaño, fuerza, intensidad, extensión o cantidad.
Corpus desk
Index ES-decrecer · decrecer · Spanish
decrecer · rank #87,697 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,697
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH debilitaron
Nearest frequency peer: debilitaron (-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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “decrecer”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- dalle
dalle
12,309 corpus weight
- damnificada
damnificada
12,308 corpus weight
- debilitaron
debilitaron
12,305 corpus weight
- decrecer
decrecer
12,304 corpus weight
- decretan
decretan
12,303 corpus weight
- dedicaste
dedicaste
12,302 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “decrecer” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | decrecer |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪ekɾeˈseɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “decrecer” en español
Rare enough to double-check
decrecer is uncommon Spanish at frequency #87,697 among 4,885 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [d̪ekɾeˈseɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Perder o ir agotándose en tamaño, fuerza, intensidad, extensión o cantidad.".
Zero misspellings are on record for decrecer in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is decrecer, spelled D-E-C-R-E-C-E-R.
Definition
- 1Perder o ir agotándose en tamaño, fuerza, intensidad, extensión o cantidad.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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