décupler
\de.ky.ple\
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
- 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
- démentiel
démentiel
39,275 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « décupler » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | décupler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.ky.ple\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,724 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « décupler » en français
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
- 1Rendre dix fois aussi grand.
- 2Augmenter considérablement.
- 3Devenir dix fois plus grand.
- 4Devenir dix fois plus grand.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how décupler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.
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