décohérence
French, noun/de.kɔ.e.ʁɑ̃s/
décohérence is spelled D-É-C-O-H-É-R-E-N-C-E (11 letters) and appears about once in every 35 million words in written French, the 190,022nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Décohérence is a French feminine noun meaning “decoherence” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fait de perdre les propriétés de cohérence au sens de la physique quantique”.
What does décohérence mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedecoherence
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fait de perdre les propriétés de cohérence au sens de la physique quantique.
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 décohérence
- décohérences plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce décohérence?
- /de.kɔ.e.ʁɑ̃s/
- \de.kɔ.e.ʁɑ̃s\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to décohérence
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is décohérence in French?
décohérence appears about once in every 35 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).