décontenancé
\de.kɔ̃t.nɑ̃.se\
The verdict
“décontenancé” is uncommon French (frequency #73,916 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,916
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe décontenancer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decontenance · décontenancé · French
décontenancé · rank #73,916 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,916
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH décile
Nearest frequency peer: décile (-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 « décontenancé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- débilités
débilités
26,088 corpus weight
- décan
décan
26,087 corpus weight
- décile
décile
26,086 corpus weight
- décontenancé
décontenancé
26,085 corpus weight
- découlait
découlait
26,084 corpus weight
- dédales
dédales
26,083 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « décontenancé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décontenancé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.kɔ̃t.nɑ̃.se\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #73,916 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « décontenancé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
décontenancé is uncommon French at frequency #73,916 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.kɔ̃t.nɑ̃.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe décontenancer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for décontenancé in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is décontenancé, spelled D-É-C-O-N-T-E-N-A-N-C-É.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe décontenancer.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).