décret
\de.kʁɛ\
The verdict
“décret” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #2,669 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #2,669
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Décision qui émane d’une autorité.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décret |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.kʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,669 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “décret” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for décret is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.kʁɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,669 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for décret, with forms such as "dcéret", "ddécret", and "decret". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "degré", "déçue", "derek", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is décret, spelled D-É-C-R-E-T.
Definition
- 1Décision qui émane d’une autorité.
- 2(surtout au pluriel) Volonté de Dieu, arrêts du sort, du destin.
- 3Aujourd’hui, décision prise par le chef de l’État, le gouvernement ou le conseil des ministres.
- 4Acte législatif pris par une des entités fédérées (communauté linguistique ou région), excepté la région de Bruxelles-Capitale.
- 5Décision rendue par l’empereur à propos d’un cas particulier.
- 6Recueil de textes de droit canonique, en particulier d’anciens canons des conciles, de constitutions des papes et de sentences des pères de l’Église.
- 7En particulier, le décret de Gratien.
- 8Le droit canonique lui-même.
- 9Acte exécutif pris par le pape ou par une autorité ecclésiastique ayant le pouvoir exécutif.
- 10Sous l’ancien droit, acte de procédure pénale.
- 11Sous la Révolution française, texte adopté par l’Assemblée nationale.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: dcéret,ddécret,decret,déccret,décert,décrett,décrret,décrte,dércet,édcret
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of décret - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “décret”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-É-C-R-E-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \de.kʁɛ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “degré” - see the side-by-side comparison. décret vs degré
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.