décours
French, noun/de.kuʁ/
décours is spelled D-É-C-O-U-R-S (7 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 114,550th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Décours is a French masculine noun meaning “"decrease; wane (of the moon)"” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Décroissement de la lune”.
What does décours mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculine"decrease; wane (of the moon)"
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Décroissement de la lune. 2. Déclin d’une maladie ; fin d’un traitement. 3. Déclin, vers la fin.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce décours?
- /de.kuʁ/
- \de.kuʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is décours in French?
décours appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).