décalant
\de.ka.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“décalant” is uncommon French (frequency #92,654 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,654
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de décaler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decalant · décalant · French
décalant · rank #92,654 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,654
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH débranchée
Nearest frequency peer: débranchée (-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 « décalant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Durst
Durst
7,352 corpus weight
- débranchée
débranchée
7,348 corpus weight
- décalant
décalant
7,347 corpus weight
- déchirantes
déchirantes
7,346 corpus weight
- décoffrage
décoffrage
7,344 corpus weight
- décollée
décollée
7,343 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « décalant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décalant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.ka.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,654 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « décalant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
décalant is uncommon French at frequency #92,654 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.ka.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de décaler.".
décalant doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is décalant, spelled D-É-C-A-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de décaler.
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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