décante

\de.kɑ̃t\

/\de.kɑ̃t\/ verb

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The verdict

“décante” is uncommon French (frequency #81,082 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#81,082
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de décanter.

Corpus desk

Index FR-decante · décante · French

décante · rank #81,082 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #81,082
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH débourse

Nearest frequency peer: débourse (-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 « décante »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « décante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for décante
PropertyValue
Headworddécante
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\de.kɑ̃t\
Letters7
Frequency rank#81,082
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « décante » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.décantetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « débourse » (#81,081), « décernant » (#81,083), « déchausser » (#81,084). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « décante » est au #81,082. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

décante is uncommon French at frequency #81,082 among 5,307 “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

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de décanter.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de décanter.
  3. 3
    Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de décanter.
  4. 4
    Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de décanter.
  5. 5
    Deuxième 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "décante"?
"décante" is spelled D-É-C-A-N-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \de.kɑ̃t\.
What does "décante" mean?
As a verb, "décante" means: Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de décanter.
How do you pronounce "décante"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "décante" is \de.kɑ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "décante" come from?
"décante" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "décante", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

diseuse#81,066dirions#81,063Delaune#81,047enflées#81,123

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list