décennies
\de.se.ni\
The verdict
“décennies” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,145. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,145
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de décennie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decennies · décennies · French
décennies · rank #4,145 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,145
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH débuts
Nearest frequency peer: débuts (-1 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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « décennies »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dimensions
dimensions
95,859 corpus weight
- douceur
douceur
95,858 corpus weight
- débuts
débuts
95,857 corpus weight
- décennies
décennies
95,856 corpus weight
- emplacement
emplacement
95,855 corpus weight
- exact
exact
95,854 corpus weight
What this shows « décennies » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décennies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.se.ni\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,145 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « décennies »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around décennies (IPA \de.se.ni\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,145 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de décennie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for décennies, with forms such as "dcéennies", "ddécennies", and "decennies". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "décernés", "déconnes", "décennie", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is décennies, spelled D-É-C-E-N-N-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de décennie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how décennies appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Sénégal est un pays soudano-sahélien dont le climat s’est progressivement sahélianisé au cours des trois dernières décennies, notamment à partir de 1966.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dcéennies
- ddécennies
- decennies
- déccennies
- décenies
- décenines
- décenneis
- décenniess
- décennise
- décnenies
- déecnnies
- édcennies
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of décennies - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "décennies", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).