décidai
\de.si.de\
The verdict
“décidai” is uncommon French (frequency #52,632 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,632
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du passé simple de décider.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decidai · décidai · French
décidai · rank #52,632 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,632
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déboussolé
Nearest frequency peer: déboussolé (-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 « décidai »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- durch
durch
47,372 corpus weight
- Dutroux
Dutroux
47,371 corpus weight
- déboussolé
déboussolé
47,370 corpus weight
- décidai
décidai
47,369 corpus weight
- déduits
déduits
47,368 corpus weight
- déformant
déformant
47,367 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « décidai » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décidai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.si.de\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,632 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « décidai » en français
Rare enough to double-check
décidai is uncommon French at frequency #52,632 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.si.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Première personne du singulier du passé simple de décider.".
No misspelling variants are generated for décidai in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 décidai, spelled D-É-C-I-D-A-I.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du passé simple de décider.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how décidai appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le gars soutenait un train un peu rapide pour moi, qui me ressentais encore de mon knock-out. Rue des Vertus, je décidai de fournir un effort sprinté pour le serrer d’un peu plus près.
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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