décalque
\de.kalk\
The verdict
“décalque” is uncommon French (frequency #96,839 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,839
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de décalquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decalque · décalque · French
décalque · rank #96,839 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,839
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH décernera
Nearest frequency peer: décernera (+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 « décalque »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- débaptiser
débaptiser
3,164 corpus weight
- décalque
décalque
3,162 corpus weight
- décernera
décernera
3,161 corpus weight
- déchetteries
déchetteries
3,160 corpus weight
- décomposées
décomposées
3,159 corpus weight
- déconnectez
déconnectez
3,158 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « décalque » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décalque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.kalk\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #96,839 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « décalque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
décalque is uncommon French at frequency #96,839 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.kalk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
décalque has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is décalque, spelled D-É-C-A-L-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Action de décalquer.
- 2Résultat de cette action.
- 3Synonyme de décalcomanie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how décalque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hubert, qui achevait de piquer le décalque d’un dessin de chape, alla chercher au fond du bahut un écheveau.
Dans un ouvrage […] le Dr Cohn fait ressortir que l’article 16 du Pacte de la S.d.N. est le décalque (Miniaturbild) de l’article 231 du Traité de Versailles.
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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