déclarer forfait
\de.kla.ʁe fɔʁ.fɛ\
The verdict
“déclarer forfait” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Renoncer à participer à une compétition sportive.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | déclarer forfait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.kla.ʁe fɔʁ.fɛ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “déclarer forfait” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for déclarer forfait is 16 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.kla.ʁe fɔʁ.fɛ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for déclarer forfait, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is déclarer forfait, spelled D-É-C-L-A-R-E-R- -F-O-R-F-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Renoncer à participer à une compétition sportive.
- 2Renoncer à continuer une action.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “déclarer forfait”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-É-C-L-A-R-E-R- -F-O-R-F-A-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \de.kla.ʁe fɔʁ.fɛ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.