décapite
\de.ka.pit\
The verdict
“décapite” is uncommon French (frequency #55,889 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,889
- 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 décapiter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decapite · décapite · French
décapite · rank #55,889 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,889
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH débarrassent
Nearest frequency peer: débarrassent (-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 « décapite »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- driving
driving
44,115 corpus weight
- débarrassent
débarrassent
44,113 corpus weight
- décapite
décapite
44,112 corpus weight
- déchirante
déchirante
44,111 corpus weight
- déchirées
déchirées
44,110 corpus weight
- décidais
décidais
44,109 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « décapite » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décapite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.ka.pit\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,889 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « décapite » en français
Rare enough to double-check
décapite is uncommon French at frequency #55,889 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.ka.pit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for décapite, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is décapite, spelled D-É-C-A-P-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de décapiter.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de décapiter.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de décapiter.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de décapiter.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de décapiter.
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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