déchoir

\de.ʃwaʁ\

/\de.ʃwaʁ\/ verb

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The verdict

“déchoir” is an uncommon French word, ranked #62,935 in French word frequency and used as a verb.

#62,935
frequency rank, French
7
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tomber dans un état moins brillant, moins avantageux que celui où l’on était.

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)

Where “déchoir” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). déchoir lands here:

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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for déchoir is 7 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.ʃwaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #62,935 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 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.

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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Using “déchoir”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is D-É-C-H-O-I-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \de.ʃwaʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list