décalage vers le rouge
\de.ka.laʒ vɛʁ lə ʁuʒ\
The verdict
“décalage vers le rouge” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Phénomène astronomique de décalage vers les grandes longueurs d’onde des raies spectrales et de l’ensemble du spectre — ce qui se traduit par un décalage vers le rouge pour le spectre visible — obs...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décalage vers le rouge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.ka.laʒ vɛʁ lə ʁuʒ\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “décalage vers le rouge” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
décalage vers le rouge is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.ka.laʒ vɛʁ lə ʁuʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Phénomène astronomique de décalage vers les grandes longueurs d’onde des raies spectrales et de l’ensemble du spectre — ce qui se traduit par un décalage vers le rouge pour le spectre visible — obs...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for décalage vers le rouge, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is décalage vers le rouge, spelled D-É-C-A-L-A-G-E- -V-E-R-S- -L-E- -R-O-U-G-E.
Definition
- 1Phénomène astronomique de décalage vers les grandes longueurs d’onde des raies spectrales et de l’ensemble du spectre — ce qui se traduit par un décalage vers le rouge pour le spectre visible — observé parmi les objets astronomiques lointains.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is D-É-C-A-L-A-G-E- -V-E-R-S- -L-E- -R-O-U-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \de.ka.laʒ vɛʁ lə ʁuʒ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.