déclination
\de.kli.na.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“déclination” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de décliner, d’aller vers son déclin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-declination · déclination · French
déclination · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | déclination |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.kli.na.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « déclination » en français
Rare enough to double-check
déclination is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.kli.na.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de décliner, d’aller vers son déclin.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for déclination, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 déclination, spelled D-É-C-L-I-N-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de décliner, d’aller vers son déclin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how déclination appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Maintenant nous sommes au temps de sa declination, auquel c’est beaucoup fait de la bien conserver [la France].
This word in other languages
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.