décès
French, noun/de.sɛ/
décès is spelled D-É-C-È-S (5 letters) and appears 41 times per million words in written French, the 2,034th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Décès is a French masculine noun meaning “death (act or fact of dying)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mort naturelle d’une personne”.
What does décès mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedeath (act or fact of dying)
Le décès de deux jeunes a provoqué des émeutes
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mort naturelle d’une personne.
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.
How do you pronounce décès?
- /de.sɛ/
- \de.sɛ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to décès
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is décès in French?
décès appears 41 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).