déclencha
\de.klɑ̃.ʃa\
The verdict
“déclencha” is uncommon French (frequency #57,888 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,888
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de déclencher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-declencha · déclencha · French
déclencha · rank #57,888 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,888
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déchirements
Nearest frequency peer: déchirements (-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 « déclencha »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- débarquait
débarquait
42,116 corpus weight
- déboisement
déboisement
42,115 corpus weight
- déchirements
déchirements
42,114 corpus weight
- déclencha
déclencha
42,113 corpus weight
- dégoûtante
dégoûtante
42,111 corpus weight
- dégringole
dégringole
42,110 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « déclencha » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | déclencha |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.klɑ̃.ʃa\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,888 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « déclencha » en français
Rare enough to double-check
déclencha is uncommon French at frequency #57,888 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.klɑ̃.ʃa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de déclencher.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for déclencha, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 déclencha, spelled D-É-C-L-E-N-C-H-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de déclencher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how déclencha appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le signal d’appel du pupitre clignota trois minutes plus tard et l’enregistreur se déclencha pour « scoper » l’envoi de David.
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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