décadents
\de.ka.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“décadents” is uncommon French (frequency #79,240 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,240
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de décadent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decadents · décadents · French
décadents · rank #79,240 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,240
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH débrouillée
Nearest frequency peer: débrouillée (-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 « décadents »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dynastiques
dynastiques
20,764 corpus weight
- dysplasie
dysplasie
20,763 corpus weight
- débrouillée
débrouillée
20,762 corpus weight
- décadents
décadents
20,761 corpus weight
- déchiquetée
déchiquetée
20,760 corpus weight
- décima
décima
20,759 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « décadents » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décadents |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.ka.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,240 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « décadents » en français
Rare enough to double-check
décadents is uncommon French at frequency #79,240 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \de.ka.dɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de décadent.".
décadents has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is décadents, spelled D-É-C-A-D-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de décadent.
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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