déchoir

\de.ʃwaʁ\

/\de.ʃwaʁ\/ verb

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The verdict

“déchoir” is uncommon French (frequency #62,935 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#62,935
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tomber dans un état moins brillant, moins avantageux que celui où l’on était.

Corpus desk

Index FR-dechoir · déchoir · French

déchoir · rank #62,935 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #62,935
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH déambulation

Nearest frequency peer: déambulation (-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 « déchoir »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « déchoir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for déchoir
PropertyValue
Headworddéchoir
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\de.ʃwaʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#62,935
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « déchoir » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).déchoirtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « déambulation » (#62,934), « décroissants » (#62,936), « Dupontel » (#62,933). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « déchoir » est au #62,935. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

déchoir is uncommon French at frequency #62,935 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.ʃwaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for déchoir, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is déchoir, spelled D-É-C-H-O-I-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tomber dans un état moins brillant, moins avantageux que celui où l’on était.
  2. 2
    Déposséder.
  3. 3
    Diminuer, s’affaiblir, en parlant des choses.
  4. 4
    Décliner, en parlant d’une personne avancée en âge, lorsque les facultés du corps ou de l’esprit commencent à s’affaiblir en elle.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how déchoir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Mais le dévouement du personnel enseignant n’amoindrit pas la femme de service : déchoir elle ne peut !
  2. Dans le meurtre, le difficile n’est pas de tuer. C’est de ne pas déchoir.

This word in other languages

fall(English)decaer(Español)decair(Português)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "déchoir"?
"déchoir" is spelled D-É-C-H-O-I-R. The IPA pronunciation is \de.ʃwaʁ\.
What does "déchoir" mean?
As a verb, "déchoir" means: Tomber dans un état moins brillant, moins avantageux que celui où l’on était.
How do you pronounce "déchoir"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "déchoir" is \de.ʃwaʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "déchoir" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "déchoir", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

défrayé#62,938Duhaime#62,932déjoués#62,941dépassa#62,943

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list