déchiffrage
\de.ʃi.fʁaʒ\
The verdict
“déchiffrage” is uncommon French (frequency #73,093 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,093
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Déchiffrement, action de déchiffrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dechiffrage · déchiffrage · French
déchiffrage · rank #73,093 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,093
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dui
Nearest frequency peer: dui (-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 « déchiffrage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Drusus
Drusus
26,911 corpus weight
- dui
dui
26,909 corpus weight
- déchiffrage
déchiffrage
26,908 corpus weight
- déchirait
déchirait
26,907 corpus weight
- déchirants
déchirants
26,906 corpus weight
- Décines
Décines
26,905 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « déchiffrage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | déchiffrage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.ʃi.fʁaʒ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #73,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « déchiffrage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
déchiffrage is uncommon French at frequency #73,093 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.ʃi.fʁaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for déchiffrage in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is déchiffrage, spelled D-É-C-H-I-F-F-R-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Déchiffrement, action de déchiffrer.
- 2Décodage ; cryptanalyse.
- 3Première lecture ou premier jeu d'une partition de musique dans un consort ou orchestre sans l'avoir étudié préalablement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how déchiffrage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le déchiffrage d'une lettre manuscrite.
L’algorithme de chiffrage dépend de certains paramètres que l'on appelle clé. La connaissance de la clé permet d'effectuer l’opération inverse, à savoir revenir de l'espace des cryptogrammes à l'espace des messages; cette opération s'appelle déchiffrage.
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This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).