décime
\de.sim\
The verdict
“décime” is uncommon French (frequency #55,217 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,217
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dixième partie du franc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decime · décime · French
décime · rank #55,217 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,217
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déchiqueté
Nearest frequency peer: déchiqueté (-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 « décime »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dye
dye
44,787 corpus weight
- débarrassant
débarrassant
44,786 corpus weight
- déchiqueté
déchiqueté
44,785 corpus weight
- décime
décime
44,784 corpus weight
- décollement
décollement
44,783 corpus weight
- définissez
définissez
44,781 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « décime » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décime |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.sim\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,217 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « décime » en français
Rare enough to double-check
décime is uncommon French at frequency #55,217 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.sim\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for décime in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is décime, spelled D-É-C-I-M-E.
Definition
- 1Dixième partie du franc.
- 2Pièce de monnaie de dix centimes.
- 3Taxe exceptionnelle ou spéciale d’un décime par franc de la part contributive de chaque citoyen.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how décime appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Noémi ne s’oppose pas formellement à ces escapades, mais les moindres dépenses en sont calculées d’avance en famille jusqu’au dernier décime.
Pour tous, elle a un sourire aimable et, d’un gracieux merci, elle montre ses dents blanches lorsqu’un décime tombe dans le plateau.
Synonyms
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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