décroit
\de.kʁwa\
The verdict
“décroit” is uncommon French (frequency #72,271 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,271
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Décroissement de la Lune lorsqu’elle entre dans son dernier quartier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decroit · décroit · French
décroit · rank #72,271 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,271
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH décrochez
Nearest frequency peer: décrochez (-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 « décroit »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- déconnectées
déconnectées
27,733 corpus weight
- déconnez
déconnez
27,732 corpus weight
- décrochez
décrochez
27,731 corpus weight
- décroit
décroit
27,730 corpus weight
- dégueux
dégueux
27,728 corpus weight
- délestage
délestage
27,727 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « décroit » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décroit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.kʁwa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,271 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « décroit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
décroit is uncommon French at frequency #72,271 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.kʁwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Décroissement de la Lune lorsqu’elle entre dans son dernier quartier.".
No misspelling variants are generated for décroit in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is décroit, spelled D-É-C-R-O-I-T.
Definition
- 1Décroissement de la Lune lorsqu’elle entre dans son dernier quartier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how décroit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le décroit de la Lune.
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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