décevoir
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,573
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
décevoir is aFrenchverb. It means: Abuser, tromper par quelque chose de spécieux et d’engageant. Pronounced \de.sə.vwaʁ\. Often confused with devoir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décevoir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.sə.vwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,573 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for décevoir is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.sə.vwaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,573 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for décevoir, with forms such as "dcéevoir", "ddécevoir", and "decevoir". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "devoir", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is décevoir, spelled D-É-C-E-V-O-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Abuser, tromper par quelque chose de spécieux et d’engageant.
- 2Tromper quelqu’un dans son attente, son espérance.
- 3Rendre vaine une attente, une espérance.
- 4Ne pas répondre aux espoirs qu’on avait mis en lui, en parlant d’un objet, d’une personne, d’une œuvre, etc.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: dcéevoir,ddécevoir,decevoir,déccevoir,déceovir,décevior,décevoirr,décevori,décevvoir,décveoir,déecvoir,édcevoir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for décevoir
Misspelling Variants of "décevoir"
Frequency rank: #13,573 in French
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Nearby French words
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