décan
\de.kɑ̃\
The verdict
“décan” is uncommon French (frequency #73,914 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,914
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tiers d’un signe du zodiaque, occupant 10° sur l’écliptique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decan · décan · French
décan · rank #73,914 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,914
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH débilités
Nearest frequency peer: débilités (-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 « décan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- DSC
DSC
26,090 corpus weight
- Dunant
Dunant
26,089 corpus weight
- débilités
débilités
26,088 corpus weight
- décan
décan
26,087 corpus weight
- décile
décile
26,086 corpus weight
- décontenancé
décontenancé
26,085 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « décan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.kɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #73,914 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « décan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
décan is uncommon French at frequency #73,914 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.kɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tiers d’un signe du zodiaque, occupant 10° sur l’écliptique.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for décan, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is décan, spelled D-É-C-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tiers d’un signe du zodiaque, occupant 10° sur l’écliptique.
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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