décliner
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,724
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
décliner is aFrenchverb. It means: Pencher vers sa fin ; s’affaiblir, en parlant des choses. Pronounced \de.kli.ne\. Often confused with délier and deviner.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for décliner is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.kli.ne\. Corpus data places it at rank #18,724 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for décliner, with forms such as "dcéliner", "ddécliner", and "decliner". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "délier", "deviner", "délirer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is décliner, spelled D-É-C-L-I-N-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for décliner
Misspelling Variants of "décliner"
Frequency rank: #18,724 in French
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Nearby French words
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