decoration
\ˌdɛk.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən\
The verdict
“decoration” is uncommon French (frequency #67,425 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,425
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Décoration.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decoration · decoration · French
decoration · rank #67,425 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,425
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Daphnis
Nearest frequency peer: Daphnis (-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 « decoration »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- céans
céans
32,581 corpus weight
- célébrez
célébrez
32,580 corpus weight
- D6
D6
32,578 corpus weight
- Daphnis
Daphnis
32,577 corpus weight
- decoration
decoration
32,576 corpus weight
- demeurez
demeurez
32,574 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « decoration » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | decoration |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˌdɛk.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #67,425 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « decoration » en français
Rare enough to double-check
decoration is uncommon French at frequency #67,425 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˌdɛk.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Décoration.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for decoration, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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 decoration, spelled D-E-C-O-R-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Décoration.
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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