déchéance
\de.ʃe.ɑ̃s\
The verdict
“déchéance” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,131. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,131
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de faire déchoir ou état de celui qui est déchu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decheance · déchéance · French
déchéance · rank #15,131 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #15,131
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH drap
Nearest frequency peer: drap (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « déchéance »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- donateurs
donateurs
84,873 corpus weight
- dosage
dosage
84,872 corpus weight
- drap
drap
84,871 corpus weight
- déchéance
déchéance
84,870 corpus weight
- décrivant
décrivant
84,869 corpus weight
- déduction
déduction
84,868 corpus weight
What this shows « déchéance » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | déchéance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.ʃe.ɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #15,131 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « déchéance »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around déchéance (IPA \de.ʃe.ɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,131 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for déchéance, with forms such as "dcéhéance", "ddéchéance", and "decheance". 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, "décence", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is déchéance, spelled D-É-C-H-É-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Action de faire déchoir ou état de celui qui est déchu.
- 2Perte d’un droit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how déchéance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai appelé l’attention sur le danger que présentent pour l’avenir d'une civilisation les révolutions qui se produisent dans une ère de déchéance économique; […].
Les bancs, malgré le froid, avaient leurs dormeurs recroquevillés, leurs miséreux, leurs ivrognes de chaque nuit. Cette déchéance m’emplit de pitié, de tristesse, […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dcéhéance
- ddéchéance
- decheance
- décchéance
- déchaénce
- déchhéance
- déchéacne
- déchéancce
- déchéanec
- déchéannce
- déchénace
- décéhance
- déhcéance
- édchéance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of déchéance - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "déchéance", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).