descente
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,662
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
descente is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de descendre, d’aller vers le bas. Pronounced \de.sɑ̃t\. It ranks #4,662 in French word frequency. Often confused with détente and déserte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | descente |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.sɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,662 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for descente is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.sɑ̃t\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,662 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 16 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for descente, with forms such as "ddescente", "decsente", and "desccente". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "détente", "déserte", "désuète", 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 descente, spelled D-E-S-C-E-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de descendre, d’aller vers le bas.
- 2Action par laquelle on descend quelque chose.
- 3Pente par laquelle on descend.
- 4Tuyau qui porte les eaux d’un chéneau ou d’une cuvette jusque sur le pavé ou par lequel descendent les eaux d’un réservoir.
- 5Discipline de course à ski.
- 6Discipline de course en canoë-kayak.
- 7Discipline de VTT.
- 8Mouvement de haut en bas de quelque chose.
- 9Hernie, ou autre incommodité, qui consiste dans le déplacement et la chute de quelque partie des intestins.
- 10Action de se déplacer temporairement d’un endroit à un autre, pour un séjour.
- 11Irruption des ennemis par mer ou par terre.
- 12Action de se transporter dans un lieu par autorité de justice, ou par action policière, pour en faire la visite, pour y procéder à une perquisition, etc.
- 13Soif, appétit démesuré.
- 14Fin de trip, retour à un état hors d’effet d’une drogue.
- 15Sorte de surprise-partie.
- 16Ouverture dans le pont d’un navire munie d’une échelle.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddescente,decsente,desccente,descenet,descennte,descentte,descetne,descnete,desecnte,desscente,dsecente,edscente
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for descente
Misspelling Variants of "descente"
Frequency rank: #4,662 in French
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Nearby French words
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