déchant
French, noun/de.ʃɑ̃/
déchant is spelled D-É-C-H-A-N-T (7 letters) and appears about once in every 41 million words in written French, the 202,924th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Déchant is a French masculine noun meaning “descant” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dans le chant médiéval, mélodie secondaire (contrechant) évoluant note contre note en mouvement contraire de…”.
What does déchant mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedescant
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Dans le chant médiéval, mélodie secondaire (contrechant) évoluant note contre note en mouvement contraire de la mélodie principale et au-dessus de celle-ci.
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.
Forms of déchant
- déchants plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce déchant?
- /de.ʃɑ̃/
- \de.ʃɑ̃\
- [deʃɑ̃]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to déchant
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is déchant in French?
déchant appears about once in every 41 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).