Decazeville
\dœ.ka.zœ.vil\
The verdict
“Decazeville” is uncommon French (frequency #81,041 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,041
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de l’Aveyron.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decazeville · Decazeville · French
Decazeville · rank #81,041 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,041
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH daru
Nearest frequency peer: daru (-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 « Decazeville »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cédéao
Cédéao
18,964 corpus weight
- dak
dak
18,963 corpus weight
- daru
daru
18,962 corpus weight
- Decazeville
Decazeville
18,960 corpus weight
- dejan
dejan
18,957 corpus weight
- Delafosse
Delafosse
18,956 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Decazeville » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Decazeville |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dœ.ka.zœ.vil\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #81,041 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Decazeville » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Decazeville is uncommon French at frequency #81,041 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \dœ.ka.zœ.vil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de l’Aveyron.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Decazeville, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Decazeville, spelled D-E-C-A-Z-E-V-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de l’Aveyron.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Decazeville appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les grévistes ont invoqué, à maintes reprises, à Bessèges, en 1882, à Anzin, en 1884, à Decazeville, en 1886, l’institution des sociétés coopératives de consommation.
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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