décollait
\de.kɔ.lɛ\
The verdict
“décollait” is uncommon French (frequency #95,824 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,824
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de décoller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decollait · décollait · French
décollait · rank #95,824 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,824
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déciderai
Nearest frequency peer: déciderai (-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 « décollait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- décaissement
décaissement
4,180 corpus weight
- déchaussés
déchaussés
4,179 corpus weight
- déciderai
déciderai
4,178 corpus weight
- décollait
décollait
4,177 corpus weight
- décolletage
décolletage
4,176 corpus weight
- décollées
décollées
4,175 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « décollait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décollait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.kɔ.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #95,824 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « décollait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
décollait is uncommon French at frequency #95,824 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.kɔ.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de décoller.".
décollait has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is décollait, spelled D-É-C-O-L-L-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de décoller.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how décollait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand Michel arriva sur la plage, remuglé d’une odeur d’huile minérale chaude, l’ULM décollait.
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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