décrètent
\de.kʁɛt\
The verdict
“décrètent” is uncommon French (frequency #95,830 among 404,891 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,830
- frequency rank, French
- 404,891
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de décréter.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décrètent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.kʁɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #95,830 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “décrètent” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
décrètent is uncommon French at frequency #95,830 among 404,891 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.kʁɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for décrètent in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is décrètent, spelled D-É-C-R-È-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de décréter.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de décréter.
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 “décrètent”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-É-C-R-È-T-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \de.kʁɛt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.