décapant
\de.ka.pɑ̃\
The verdict
“décapant” is uncommon French (frequency #57,221 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,221
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Produit dont le rôle est de décaper une surface.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decapant · décapant · French
décapant · rank #57,221 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,221
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH débonnaire
Nearest frequency peer: débonnaire (-2 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 « décapant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- duraient
duraient
42,784 corpus weight
- débonnaire
débonnaire
42,782 corpus weight
- décapant
décapant
42,780 corpus weight
- décomposée
décomposée
42,778 corpus weight
- déconstruit
déconstruit
42,777 corpus weight
- décorum
décorum
42,776 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « décapant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décapant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.ka.pɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,221 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « décapant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
décapant is uncommon French at frequency #57,221 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.ka.pɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Produit dont le rôle est de décaper une surface.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for décapant, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is décapant, spelled D-É-C-A-P-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Produit dont le rôle est de décaper une surface.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how décapant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rien de tel que le vieux pain de savon Sunlight au citron, un décapant qui peut aussi ravoir les taches de cambouis sur les pantalons.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).