décubitus
\de.ky.bi.tys\
The verdict
“décubitus” is uncommon French (frequency #97,889 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,889
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Position du corps qui repose sur un plan horizontal, couché, sur le dos, sur le ventre ou sur le côté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decubitus · décubitus · French
décubitus · rank #97,889 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,889
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH décrochait
Nearest frequency peer: décrochait (-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 « décubitus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- décloisonner
décloisonner
2,115 corpus weight
- décongélati…
décongélation
2,114 corpus weight
- décrochait
décrochait
2,113 corpus weight
- décubitus
décubitus
2,112 corpus weight
- décédait
décédait
2,111 corpus weight
- dédient
dédient
2,110 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « décubitus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décubitus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.ky.bi.tys\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #97,889 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « décubitus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
décubitus is uncommon French at frequency #97,889 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.ky.bi.tys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Position du corps qui repose sur un plan horizontal, couché, sur le dos, sur le ventre ou sur le côté.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for décubitus in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 décubitus, spelled D-É-C-U-B-I-T-U-S.
Definition
- 1Position du corps qui repose sur un plan horizontal, couché, sur le dos, sur le ventre ou sur le côté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how décubitus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans les affections graves, le décubitus dorsal occasionne des eschares, des gangrènes des régions sur lesquelles repose le corps du malade.
This word in other languages
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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