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décaféiné

French, noun

décaféiné is spelled D-É-C-A-F-É-I-N-É (9 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written French, the 117,104th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Décaféiné is a French masculine noun meaning “decaffeinated coffee, decaf” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of décaféiner. With an accent, décaféine is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Café dont on a ôté tout ou bonne partie de la caféine”.

What does décaféiné mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    decaffeinated

noun

  1. 1

    masculinedecaffeinated coffee, decaf

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of décaféiner

verb

as décaféine
  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. dont on a ôté tout ou bonne partie de la caféine.

noun: 1. Café dont on a ôté tout ou bonne partie de la caféine.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of décaféiné

  • décaféinée feminine
  • décaféinés masculine plural
  • décaféinées feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to décaféiné

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is décaféiné in French?

décaféiné appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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