déclamation
\de.kla.ma.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“déclamation” is uncommon French (frequency #65,093 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,093
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pièce d’éloquence que les rhéteurs de l’Antiquité composaient pour s’exercer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-declamation · déclamation · French
déclamation · rank #65,093 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,093
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déchargés
Nearest frequency peer: déchargés (-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 « déclamation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Duby
Duby
34,912 corpus weight
- Dupleix
Dupleix
34,911 corpus weight
- déchargés
déchargés
34,909 corpus weight
- déclamation
déclamation
34,908 corpus weight
- décrira
décrira
34,907 corpus weight
- défiez
défiez
34,906 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « déclamation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | déclamation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.kla.ma.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #65,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « déclamation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
déclamation is uncommon French at frequency #65,093 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.kla.ma.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for déclamation, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is déclamation, spelled D-É-C-L-A-M-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Pièce d’éloquence que les rhéteurs de l’Antiquité composaient pour s’exercer.
- 2Action, manière, art de déclamer.
- 3Emploi d’expressions et de phrases pompeuses dans un sujet, dans un ouvrage qui ne le comporte pas, ainsi que d’un discours, d’un écrit où l’on remarque ce genre d’affectation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how déclamation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est alors, vers la fin de la République et au commencement du règne d’Auguste, que la déclamation a pris, à Rome, l’importance qu’elle a gardée jusqu’aux derniers jours de l’Empire.
Déclamation oratoire.
This word in other languages
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).