décernant
\de.sɛʁ.nɑ̃\
The verdict
“décernant” is uncommon French (frequency #81,083 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,083
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de décerner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decernant · décernant · French
décernant · rank #81,083 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,083
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH décante
Nearest frequency peer: décante (-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 « décernant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- débourse
débourse
18,920 corpus weight
- décante
décante
18,919 corpus weight
- décernant
décernant
18,918 corpus weight
- déchausser
déchausser
18,917 corpus weight
- déclinait
déclinait
18,916 corpus weight
- décolorer
décolorer
18,915 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « décernant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décernant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.sɛʁ.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,083 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « décernant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
décernant is uncommon French at frequency #81,083 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.sɛʁ.nɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de décerner.".
Zero misspellings are on record for décernant in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is décernant, spelled D-É-C-E-R-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent 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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