décerna
\de.sɛʁ.na\
The verdict
“décerna” is uncommon French (frequency #86,637 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,637
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de décerner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decerna · décerna · French
décerna · rank #86,637 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,637
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH décapitées
Nearest frequency peer: décapitées (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « décerna »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- débitée
débitée
13,367 corpus weight
- débrayer
débrayer
13,366 corpus weight
- décapitées
décapitées
13,365 corpus weight
- décerna
décerna
13,364 corpus weight
- déchargées
déchargées
13,363 corpus weight
- décidiez
décidiez
13,362 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « décerna » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décerna |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.sɛʁ.na\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,637 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « décerna » en français
Rare enough to double-check
décerna is uncommon French at frequency #86,637 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.sɛʁ.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de décerner.".
No misspelling variants are generated for décerna in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is décerna, spelled D-É-C-E-R-N-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de décerner.
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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