décompliquer
\de.kɔ̃.pli.ke\
The verdict
“décompliquer” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ôter les complications, les difficultés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decompliquer · décompliquer · French
décompliquer · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décompliquer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.kɔ̃.pli.ke\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « décompliquer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
décompliquer is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \de.kɔ̃.pli.ke\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ôter les complications, les difficultés.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for décompliquer, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is décompliquer, spelled D-É-C-O-M-P-L-I-Q-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Ôter les complications, les difficultés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how décompliquer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La tristesse est un état de péché, que je ne connaissais plus, que je hais, dont je veux décompliquer mon âme. Ce cahier doit m’aider à réobtenir en moi le bonheur. La tristesse est une complication. Jamais je ne cherchais à analyser mon bonheur.
L'homme trouve que le jugement des femmes sur lui le décomplique.
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.