décante
\de.kɑ̃t\
The verdict
“décante” is uncommon French (frequency #81,082 among 404,891 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,082
- frequency rank, French
- 404,891
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de décanter.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.kɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,082 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “décante” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
décante is uncommon French at frequency #81,082 among 404,891 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.kɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for décante in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 décante, spelled D-É-C-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de décanter.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de décanter.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de décanter.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de décanter.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de décanter.
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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Using “décante”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-É-C-A-N-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \de.kɑ̃t\ (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.