décamètre carré
\de.ka.mɛtʁ ka.ʁe\
The verdict
“décamètre carré” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Unité dérivée du Système international (SI), représentant la surface occupée par un carré d’un décamètre de côté, valant 10² mètres carrés, dont le symbole est dam².
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décamètre carré |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.ka.mɛtʁ ka.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “décamètre carré” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for décamètre carré is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.ka.mɛtʁ ka.ʁe\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Unité dérivée du Système international (SI), représentant la surface occupée par un carré d’un décamètre de côté, valant 10² mètres carrés, dont le symbole est dam².".
Zero misspellings are on record for décamètre carré in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is décamètre carré, spelled D-É-C-A-M-È-T-R-E- -C-A-R-R-É.
Definition
- 1Unité dérivée du Système international (SI), représentant la surface occupée par un carré d’un décamètre de côté, valant 10² mètres carrés, dont le symbole est dam².
Synonyms
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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Using “décamètre carré”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-É-C-A-M-È-T-R-E- -C-A-R-R-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \de.ka.mɛtʁ ka.ʁe\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
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.