décolorer
\de.kɔ.lɔ.ʁe\
The verdict
“décolorer” is uncommon French (frequency #81,086 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,086
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dépourvoir de sa couleur ; ôter, altérer la couleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decolorer · décolorer · French
décolorer · rank #81,086 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,086
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déclinait
Nearest frequency peer: déclinait (-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 « décolorer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- décernant
décernant
18,918 corpus weight
- déchausser
déchausser
18,917 corpus weight
- déclinait
déclinait
18,916 corpus weight
- décolorer
décolorer
18,915 corpus weight
- décompter
décompter
18,914 corpus weight
- déculpabili…
déculpabiliser
18,913 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « décolorer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décolorer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.kɔ.lɔ.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,086 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « décolorer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
décolorer is uncommon French at frequency #81,086 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.kɔ.lɔ.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for décolorer in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is décolorer, spelled D-É-C-O-L-O-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Dépourvoir de sa couleur ; ôter, altérer la couleur.
- 2Perdre ses couleurs d'origine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how décolorer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Se décolorer les cheveux.
Je me suis décoloré ma chemise.
This word in other languages
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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