décamper
\de.kɑ̃.pe\
The verdict
“décamper” is uncommon French (frequency #88,548 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,548
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lever le camp.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decamper · décamper · French
décamper · rank #88,548 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,548
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH décelées
Nearest frequency peer: décelées (+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 « décamper »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dukan
dukan
11,457 corpus weight
- débarrassera
débarrassera
11,455 corpus weight
- décamper
décamper
11,453 corpus weight
- décelées
décelées
11,452 corpus weight
- déconnais
déconnais
11,451 corpus weight
- décos
décos
11,450 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « décamper » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décamper |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.kɑ̃.pe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,548 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « décamper » en français
Rare enough to double-check
décamper is uncommon French at frequency #88,548 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.kɑ̃.pe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for décamper in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is décamper, spelled D-É-C-A-M-P-E-R.
Definition
- 1Lever le camp.
- 2Se retirer précipitamment de quelque lieu, s’enfuir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how décamper appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils prirent la résolution de décamper la nuit, à la seconde veille, de crainte que les Perses venant à s'appercevoir ^([sic]) de leur départ ne les suivissent et ne les inquiétassent dans leur marche.
Il remarqua qu’ici les morts et la fuite semblaient avoir obéi à des règles militaires. Rien ne traînait, la fosse était recouverte, et à part cette fenêtre sous laquelle il se tenait, on avait décampé dans toutes les règles de l’art du cantonnement.
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); 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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