décuple
\de.kypl\
The verdict
“décuple” is uncommon French (frequency #60,723 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,723
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quantité dix fois plus grande.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decuple · décuple · French
décuple · rank #60,723 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,723
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déchèterie
Nearest frequency peer: déchèterie (-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 « décuple »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- décentralis…
décentralisés
39,281 corpus weight
- déchargée
déchargée
39,280 corpus weight
- déchèterie
déchèterie
39,279 corpus weight
- décuple
décuple
39,278 corpus weight
- décupler
décupler
39,277 corpus weight
- déduites
déduites
39,276 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « décuple » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décuple |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.kypl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #60,723 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « décuple » en français
Rare enough to double-check
décuple is uncommon French at frequency #60,723 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.kypl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Quantité dix fois plus grande.".
décuple doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is décuple, spelled D-É-C-U-P-L-E.
Definition
- 1Quantité dix fois plus grande.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how décuple appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a gagné dans cette affaire le décuple de ce qu’il avait avancé.
Elles lui servent aussi, le cas échéant, de prêteuses qu’il repaye au décuple.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).