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décoder

French, verb/de.kɔ.de/

décoder is spelled D-É-C-O-D-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 33,160th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Décoder is a French verb meaning “to decode” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Déchiffrer ce qui est codé”.

What does décoder mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to decode

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Déchiffrer ce qui est codé.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of décoder

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • décodant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • décodé participle past
  • décode first-person indicative present
  • décodes indicative present second-person
  • décodons first-person indicative plural
  • décodez indicative plural present
  • décodent indicative plural present
  • décodais first-person imperfect indicative
  • décodait imperfect indicative singular
  • décodions first-person imperfect indicative
  • décodiez imperfect indicative plural
  • décodaient imperfect indicative plural
  • décodai first-person historic indicative
  • décodas historic indicative past
  • décoda historic indicative past
  • décodâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce décoder?

  • /de.kɔ.de/
  • \de.kɔ.de\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to décoder

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is décoder in French?

décoder appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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