decline
The verdict
“decline” is uncommon French (frequency #86,604 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,604
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Déclin, recul , abaissement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decline · decline · French
decline · rank #86,604 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,604
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dependent
Nearest frequency peer: dependent (+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 « decline »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dann
dann
13,402 corpus weight
- darse
darse
13,401 corpus weight
- dealeurs
dealeurs
13,399 corpus weight
- decline
decline
13,397 corpus weight
- dependent
dependent
13,396 corpus weight
- Desforges
Desforges
13,395 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « decline » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | decline |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,604 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « decline » en français
Rare enough to double-check
decline is uncommon French at frequency #86,604 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Déclin, recul , abaissement.".
decline doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is decline, spelled D-E-C-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Déclin, recul , abaissement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how decline appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
a civilization in decline
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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