décrivit
\de.kʁi.vi\
The verdict
“décrivit” is uncommon French (frequency #58,564 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,564
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de décrire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decrivit · décrivit · French
décrivit · rank #58,564 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,564
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH découvreurs
Nearest frequency peer: découvreurs (-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 « décrivit »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- décoction
décoction
41,440 corpus weight
- découpes
découpes
41,439 corpus weight
- découvreurs
découvreurs
41,438 corpus weight
- décrivit
décrivit
41,437 corpus weight
- dédommageme…
dédommagements
41,436 corpus weight
- déferle
déferle
41,435 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « décrivit » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décrivit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.kʁi.vi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,564 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « décrivit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
décrivit is uncommon French at frequency #58,564 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.kʁi.vi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de décrire.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for décrivit, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is décrivit, spelled D-É-C-R-I-V-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple 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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