déclarer forfait
\de.kla.ʁe fɔʁ.fɛ\
The verdict
“déclarer forfait” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Renoncer à participer à une compétition sportive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-declarer-forfait · déclarer forfait · French
déclarer forfait · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « déclarer forfait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
déclarer forfait is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \de.kla.ʁe fɔʁ.fɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how déclarer forfait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au milieu, c’est Souleymane Diarra (adducteurs) qui déclare forfait.
Je refusai la discussion. J’avais déclaré forfait, je pouvais à peine lever le petit doigt, les choses avaient le mérite d’être claires, je voulais qu’on me foute la paix, qu’on m’oublie.
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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.