décence
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,722
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
décence is aFrenchnoun. It means: Bienséance, ce qui est décent. Pronounced \de.sɑ̃s\. Often confused with défense and devenue.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.sɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,722 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for décence is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.sɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #18,722 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for décence, with forms such as "dcéence", "ddécence", and "decence". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "défense", "devenue", "dénonce", and more, 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 décence, spelled D-É-C-E-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bienséance, ce qui est décent.
- 2Bienséance en ce qui concerne les bonnes mœurs.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: dcéence,ddécence,decence,déccence,décecne,décencce,décenec,décennce,décnece,déecnce,édcence
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for décence
Misspelling Variants of "décence"
Frequency rank: #18,722 in French
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