décroissant
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#31,935
in French word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
décroissant is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui décroît, qui diminue régulièrement. Pronounced \de.kʁwa.sɑ̃\. Often confused with décroissante and décroissance.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décroissant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \de.kʁwa.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #31,935 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for décroissant is 11 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.kʁwa.sɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #31,935 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for décroissant, with forms such as "dcéroissant", "ddécroissant", and "decroissant". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "décroissante", "décroissance", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is décroissant, spelled D-É-C-R-O-I-S-S-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui décroît, qui diminue régulièrement.
- 2Relatif aux phases de la lune qui se déroule entre la pleine lune et la nouvelle lune.
- 3Qui satisfait la condition f(s) ≥ f(t) si s ≤ t pour tout couple (s, t) d’éléments, en parlant d’une fonction d’une variable réelle f.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: dcéroissant,ddécroissant,decroissant,déccroissant,décorissant,décriossant,décroisant,décroisasnt,décroissannt,décroissantt,décroissatn,décroissnat,décrosisant,décrroissant,dércoissant,édcroissant
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Misspelling Variants of "décroissant"
Frequency rank: #31,935 in French
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Nearby French words
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