décimation
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10 characters
Language
French
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décimation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Châtiment militaire, en usage chez les Romains, qui consistait à punir de mort un soldat sur dix, lorsqu’il y en avait un grand nombre qui avaient commis quelque lâcheté ou manqué à l’obéissance ; ... Pronounced \de.si.ma.sjɔ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décimation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.si.ma.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for décimation is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.si.ma.sjɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for décimation in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 décimation, spelled D-É-C-I-M-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Châtiment militaire, en usage chez les Romains, qui consistait à punir de mort un soldat sur dix, lorsqu’il y en avait un grand nombre qui avaient commis quelque lâcheté ou manqué à l’obéissance ; on les faisait tirer au sort.
- 2Mise à mort aveugle d’un large nombre d’individus, telle une armée ou une partie d’une population spécifique.
- 3Destruction massive et indifférenciée.
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