déca

\de.ka\

/\de.ka\/ noun

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The verdict

“déca” is uncommon French (frequency #85,657 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#85,657
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Café décaféiné.

Corpus desk

Index FR-deca · déca · French

déca · rank #85,657 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #85,657
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH débarrassées

Nearest frequency peer: débarrassées (-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 « déca »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « déca » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for déca
PropertyValue
Headworddéca
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\de.ka\
Letters4
Frequency rank#85,657
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « déca » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.décatombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « débarrassées » (#85,656), « décapsuleur » (#85,658), « dynamitage » (#85,655). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « déca » est au #85,657. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

déca is uncommon French at frequency #85,657 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.ka\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Café décaféiné.".

No misspelling variants are generated for déca in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is déca, spelled D-É-C-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Café décaféiné.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how déca appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les amateurs de décas ne seront pas en reste, une trappe permettant d’utiliser du café préalablement moulu, acheté en paquet.
  2. Chassant cette idée fantaisiste de ma tête, je me resservis un déca.

This word in other languages

decaf(English)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "déca"?
"déca" is spelled D-É-C-A. The IPA pronunciation is \de.ka\.
What does "déca" mean?
As a noun, "déca" means: Café décaféiné.
How do you pronounce "déca"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "déca" is \de.ka\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "déca" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "déca", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

dram#85,650doum#85,647elin#85,685expé#85,711

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list