décembre

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for décembre is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.sɑ̃bʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #582 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Douzième et dernier mois de l’année du calendrier grégorien, qui compte 31 jours.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for décembre, with forms such as "dcéembre", "ddécembre", and "decembre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "dénombre", "décombres", "December", 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 décembre, spelled D-É-C-E-M-B-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.