déclamer
\de.kla.me\
The verdict
“déclamer” is uncommon French (frequency #74,726 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,726
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réciter à haute voix et avec le ton et les gestes convenables.
Corpus desk
Index FR-declamer · déclamer · French
déclamer · rank #74,726 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,726
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déchiffre
Nearest frequency peer: déchiffre (-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 « déclamer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- DSN
DSN
25,279 corpus weight
- débrouillar…
débrouillardise
25,277 corpus weight
- déchiffre
déchiffre
25,276 corpus weight
- déclamer
déclamer
25,275 corpus weight
- décoincer
décoincer
25,274 corpus weight
- décomposés
décomposés
25,273 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « déclamer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | déclamer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.kla.me\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,726 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « déclamer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
déclamer is uncommon French at frequency #74,726 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.kla.me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for déclamer in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 déclamer, spelled D-É-C-L-A-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Réciter à haute voix et avec le ton et les gestes convenables.
- 2Invectiver, parler avec chaleur contre quelqu’un, contre quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how déclamer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Déclamer des vers, un discours, une tirade, une scène de tragédie, en public.
S’exercer à déclamer.
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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