décor

/\de.kɔʁ\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,567

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

décor is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qui enjolive, en parlant du papier, de la peinture, des ornements. Pronounced \de.kɔʁ\. It ranks #4,567 in French word frequency. Often confused with der and dor.

Key facts for décor
PropertyValue
Headworddécor
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\de.kɔʁ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#4,567
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of décor in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for décor is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.kɔʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,567 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for décor, with forms such as "dcéor", "ddécor", and "decor". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "der", "dor", "deo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is décor, spelled D-É-C-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ce qui enjolive, en parlant du papier, de la peinture, des ornements.
  2. 2
    Ensemble des installations, décorations, matériels, dans lesquels les acteurs d’une pièce de théâtre ou d’un film évoluent.
  3. 3
    Au pluriel, l’ensemble des décorations d’un théâtre.
  4. 4
    Aspect extérieur formé accidentellement par les choses de la nature.
  5. 5
    Tout ce qui entoure la chaussée d’une voie de circulation routière.
  6. 6
    Ce qui apparaît à la vue ; apparence.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: dcéor,ddécor,decor,déccor,décorr,décro,déocr,édcor

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for décor

Misspelling Variants of "décor"

dcéor5ddécor6decor5déccor6décorr6décro5déocr5édcor5
Misspelling Variants of "décor"

Frequency rank: #4,567 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "décor"?
"décor" is spelled D-É-C-O-R. The IPA pronunciation is \de.kɔʁ\.
What does "décor" mean?
As a noun, "décor" means: Ce qui enjolive, en parlant du papier, de la peinture, des ornements.
What words are commonly confused with "décor"?
"décor" is commonly confused with "der", "dor", "deo". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "décor"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "décor" is \de.kɔʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "décor" come from?
"décor" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.