décidément
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,428
in French word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
décidément is anFrenchadv. It means: D’une manière décidée, ferme. Pronounced \de.si.de.mɑ̃\. It ranks #7,428 in French word frequency. Often confused with décident and décidèrent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décidément |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| IPA | \de.si.de.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #7,428 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for décidément is 10 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.si.de.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,428 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for décidément, with forms such as "dcéidément", "ddécidément", and "decidement". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "décident", "décidèrent", "décideront", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is décidément, spelled D-É-C-I-D-É-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1D’une manière décidée, ferme.
- 2D’une manière décisive, évidente.
- 3En définitive, tout bien considéré.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: dcéidément,ddécidément,decidement,déccidément,décdiément,déciddément,décidméent,décidéemnt,décidémennt,décidémentt,décidémetn,décidémment,décidémnet,déciédment,déicdément,édcidément
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for décidément
Misspelling Variants of "décidément"
Frequency rank: #7,428 in French
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