décrirais
\de.kʁi.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“décrirais” is uncommon French (frequency #90,657 among 404,891 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,657
- frequency rank, French
- 404,891
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du conditionnel de décrire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décrirais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.kʁi.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #90,657 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “décrirais” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
décrirais is uncommon French at frequency #90,657 among 404,891 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.kʁi.ʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
décrirais has no tracked misspelling variants, 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is décrirais, spelled D-É-C-R-I-R-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du conditionnel de décrire.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du conditionnel de décrire.
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 “décrirais”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-É-C-R-I-R-A-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \de.kʁi.ʁɛ\ (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.