déclin
French, noun/de.klɛ̃/
déclin is spelled D-É-C-L-I-N (6 letters) and appears 9.5 times per million words in written French, the 6,944th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Déclin is a French masculine noun meaning “decline” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “État d’une chose qui penche vers sa fin, qui arrive au terme de son cours, qui perd de sa force, de son éclat”.
What does déclin mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedecline
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. État d’une chose qui penche vers sa fin, qui arrive au terme de son cours, qui perd de sa force, de son éclat. 2. La dernière phase, le dernier quartier de la lune.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of déclin
- déclins plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce déclin?
- /de.klɛ̃/
- \de.klɛ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to déclin
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is déclin in French?
déclin appears 9.5 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).