déclina
\de.kli.na\
The verdict
“déclina” is uncommon French (frequency #71,451 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,451
- 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 décliner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-declina · déclina · French
déclina · rank #71,451 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,451
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déchaînées
Nearest frequency peer: déchaînées (-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 « déclina »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- déboursés
déboursés
28,553 corpus weight
- décennal
décennal
28,552 corpus weight
- déchaînées
déchaînées
28,551 corpus weight
- déclina
déclina
28,550 corpus weight
- décousue
décousue
28,549 corpus weight
- décréta
décréta
28,548 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « déclina » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | déclina |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.kli.na\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,451 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « déclina » en français
Rare enough to double-check
déclina is uncommon French at frequency #71,451 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.kli.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de décliner.".
déclina has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 déclina, spelled D-É-C-L-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de décliner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how déclina appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La vie urbaine dépérit et, comme la civilisation islamique médiévale était elle-même essentiellement urbaine et que la richesse matérielle dépendait du commerce, la prospérité déclina.
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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