décliner
\de.kli.ne\
The verdict
“décliner” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,724. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,724
- frequency rank, French
- 404,891
- “D” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pencher vers sa fin ; s’affaiblir, en parlant des choses.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décliner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.kli.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,724 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “décliner” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around décliner (IPA \de.kli.ne\), averb. Corpus frequency is #18,724 among 404,891 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 11 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for décliner, with forms such as "dcéliner", "ddécliner", and "decliner". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "délier", "deviner", "délirer", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is décliner, spelled D-É-C-L-I-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Pencher vers sa fin ; s’affaiblir, en parlant des choses.
- 2Subir, soit de la diminution des forces physiques, soit de l’affaiblissement des facultés intellectuelles, et quelquefois de l’une et de l’autre en même temps, en parlant des personnes.
- 3S’écarter d’une direction ou d’un point fixe.
- 4S’éloigner de l’équateur, en parlant d'un astre.
- 5S’écarter du nord vrai, en parlant de l'aiguille aimantée d'une boussole.
- 6Ne pas regarder directement celui des points cardinaux vers lequel il est tourné, en parlant d'un plan vertical.
- 7Écarter comme inacceptable.
- 8Refuser une proposition , une responsabilité, etc.
- 9Faire passer un nom, un pronom, un adjectif, par tous ses cas.
- 10Dire son état civil, afin de faire savoir qui l’on est, afin de se faire connaître.
- 11S’énoncer en plusieurs variantes, en sous-classes, etc.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dcéliner
- ddécliner
- decliner
- déccliner
- décilner
- déclienr
- déclinerr
- déclinner
- déclinre
- déclliner
- déclnier
- délciner
- édcliner
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of décliner - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “décliner”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-É-C-L-I-N-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \de.kli.ne\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “délier” - see the side-by-side comparison. décliner vs délier
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.