décades
\de.kad\
The verdict
“décades” is uncommon French (frequency #78,355 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,355
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de décade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decades · décades · French
décades · rank #78,355 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,355
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH débarquera
Nearest frequency peer: débarquera (-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 « décades »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- déambulent
déambulent
21,649 corpus weight
- débarquaient
débarquaient
21,648 corpus weight
- débarquera
débarquera
21,647 corpus weight
- décades
décades
21,646 corpus weight
- décalogue
décalogue
21,645 corpus weight
- déchristian…
déchristianisation
21,644 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « décades » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décades |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.kad\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « décades » en français
Rare enough to double-check
décades is uncommon French at frequency #78,355 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.kad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de décade.".
décades doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is décades, spelled D-É-C-A-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de décade.
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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