décennie
French, noun/de.se.ni/
décennie is spelled D-É-C-E-N-N-I-E (8 letters) and appears 9.8 times per million words in written French, the 6,801st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Décennie is a French feminine noun meaning “decade, ten-year period” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Période de dix ans”.
What does décennie mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedecade, ten-year period
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Période de dix ans.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of décennie
- décennies plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce décennie?
- /de.se.ni/
- \de.se.ni\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to décennie
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is décennie in French?
décennie appears 9.8 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).