décupler

\de.ky.ple\

/\de.ky.ple\/ verb

The verdict

“décupler” is uncommon French (frequency #60,724 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#60,724
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre dix fois aussi grand.

Corpus desk

Index FR-decupler · décupler · French

décupler · rank #60,724 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #60,724
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH décuple

Nearest frequency peer: décuple (-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 « décupler »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « décupler » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for décupler
PropertyValue
Headworddécupler
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\de.ky.ple\
Letters8
Frequency rank#60,724
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « décupler » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).décuplertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « décuple » (#60,723), « déduites » (#60,725), « déchèterie » (#60,722). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « décupler » est au #60,724. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

décupler is uncommon French at frequency #60,724 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.ky.ple\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for décupler, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is décupler, spelled D-É-C-U-P-L-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Rendre dix fois aussi grand.
  2. 2
    Augmenter considérablement.
  3. 3
    Devenir dix fois plus grand.
  4. 4
    Devenir dix fois plus grand.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how décupler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Dans la numération de position, pour décupler une somme en chiffres, on décale tous les chiffres d'un rang vers la gauche et on inscrit un zéro, si besoin, au chiffre des unités.
  2. Il a décuplé son bien en quelques années.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "décupler"?
"décupler" is spelled D-É-C-U-P-L-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \de.ky.ple\.
What does "décupler" mean?
As a verb, "décupler" means: Rendre dix fois aussi grand.
How do you pronounce "décupler"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "décupler" is \de.ky.ple\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "décupler" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "décupler", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list