descendre
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,835
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
descendre is aFrenchverb. It means: Aller de haut en bas. Pronounced \de.sɑ̃dʁ\. It ranks #3,835 in French word frequency. Often confused with descente and détendre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | descendre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.sɑ̃dʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #3,835 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for descendre is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.sɑ̃dʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,835 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 26 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for descendre, with forms such as "ddescendre", "decsendre", and "desccendre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "descente", "détendre", "descendu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is descendre, spelled D-E-S-C-E-N-D-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Aller de haut en bas.
- 2Aller de l’amont vers l’aval. Suivre un cours d’eau dans le sens du courant.
- 3Aller du nord vers le sud.
- 4Débarquer.
- 5Faire irruption à main armée.
- 6Mettre pied à terre ; sortir d’un véhicule.
- 7Examiner soigneusement, consulter, interroger.
- 8Rapporter ou examiner les particularités, les circonstances.
- 9Se transporter en quelque endroit pour y procéder à un examen ou à toute autre opération.
- 10S’abaisser à.
- 11Déchoir.
- 12tendre, se diriger, être porté ou poussé de haut en bas.
- 13Baisser.
- 14S’étendre de haut en bas.
- 15Aller en pente.
- 16Passer de l’aigu au grave.
- 17Être issu, tirer son origine d’une personne, d’une race.
- 18Aller de haut en bas et le terme désignant l’espace parcouru en allant de haut en bas se construit comme un complément d’objet direct.
- 19Suivre un cours d’eau.
- 20Transporter une chose ou une personne d’un lieu haut pour la mettre plus bas.
- 21Tuer, abattre ou mettre à terre.
- 22Critiquer violemment, mettre en pièces.
- 23Boire, parfois manger, sans retenue.
- 24Pour un comédien, se déplacer du fond de la scène du théâtre vers le public.
- 25Aller loger chez quelqu'un.
- 26Rentrer du travail.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddescendre,decsendre,desccendre,descednre,descenddre,descender,descendrre,descenndre,descenrde,descnedre,desecndre,desscendre,dsecendre,edscendre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for descendre
Misspelling Variants of "descendre"
Frequency rank: #3,835 in French
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Nearby French words
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