décadence
\de.ka.dɑ̃s\
The verdict
“décadence” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,681. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,681
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dégradation, abaissement général des valeurs, des comportements que reconnaît une société, un peuple ou un pouvoir politique comme étant la norme à devoir respecter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decadence · décadence · French
décadence · rank #17,681 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,681
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH débouchés
Nearest frequency peer: débouchés (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « décadence »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dormez
dormez
82,323 corpus weight
- dre
dre
82,322 corpus weight
- débouchés
débouchés
82,321 corpus weight
- décadence
décadence
82,320 corpus weight
- découlent
découlent
82,318 corpus weight
- déficits
déficits
82,317 corpus weight
What this shows « décadence » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décadence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.ka.dɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #17,681 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « décadence »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around décadence (IPA \de.ka.dɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,681 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for décadence, with forms such as "dcéadence", "ddécadence", and "decadence". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "décence", "décadent", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is décadence, spelled D-É-C-A-D-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Dégradation, abaissement général des valeurs, des comportements que reconnaît une société, un peuple ou un pouvoir politique comme étant la norme à devoir respecter.
- 2Dégradation, disparition, offense.
- 3Derniers siècles de l’empire romain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how décadence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
… ouvrez vos cellules de marbre et laissez partager votre repos à un frère fatigué, qui aimerait mieux avoir à combattre cent mille païens que d’être témoin de la décadence de notre ordre sacré !
Cependant, le caractère vraiment ornemental et architectural des armoiries, qui ne tolérait pas une représentation des objets sous leur forme parfaitement naturelle, se conserva […] jusqu’au milieu du 16ᵉ [siècle]. Depuis, les bonnes traditions allèrent s’affaiblissant, jusqu’au 19ᵉ qui a été témoin de la décadence complète de cet art vénérable, dont il s…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dcéadence
- ddécadence
- decadence
- déacdence
- décaddence
- décadecne
- décadencce
- décadenec
- décadennce
- décadnece
- décaednce
- déccadence
- décdaence
- édcadence
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of décadence - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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