décapiter
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#31,456
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
décapiter is aFrenchverb. It means: Trancher la tête à une personne avec une épée, une hache (sur le billot), ou au moyen de la guillotine. Pronounced \de.ka.pi.te\. Often confused with décapités and décapitée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décapiter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.ka.pi.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #31,456 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for décapiter is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.ka.pi.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #31,456 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for décapiter, with forms such as "dcéapiter", "ddécapiter", and "decapiter". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "décapités", "décapitée", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is décapiter, spelled D-É-C-A-P-I-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Trancher la tête à une personne avec une épée, une hache (sur le billot), ou au moyen de la guillotine.
- 2Ôter la tête d'un animal.
- 3Enlever, ôter, la partie supérieure.
- 4Éliminer physiquement les quelques personnes qui dirigent un mouvement ennemi, qui en sont l’âme et la force, et laisser les autres tranquilles.
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Also misspelled as: dcéapiter,ddécapiter,decapiter,déacpiter,décaipter,décapietr,décapiterr,décapitre,décapitter,décappiter,décaptier,déccapiter,décpaiter,édcapiter
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Misspelling Variants of "décapiter"
Frequency rank: #31,456 in French
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