décomptevsdécoupéWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: décompte is a noun, découpé is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“décompte” is a noun and “découpé” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#14,024
“décompte” frequency rank
#17,935
“découpé” frequency rank
31959
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature décompte découpé
Definition Ce qu’il y a à rabattre, à déduire sur une somme qu’on paie. Qui est coupé en plusieurs parties.

Letter map: décompte vs découpé

Shared letters muted; letters that set décompte and découpé apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. décompte runs 8 letters (CVCVCCCV) against découpé's 7 (CVCVVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
décompte
7 ch
découpé

Role in the sentence - décompte and découpé

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: décompte is anoun and découpéanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 31959, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

décompte is recorded at frequency rank #14,024, classified as anoun, pronounced \de.kɔ̃t\. découpé is at rank #17,935, tagged as anadj.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 31959, this pair ranks #300,481 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of décompte vs découpé

Shared letters: cdopé. Private to "décompte": emt. Private to "découpé": u.

"décompte" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCCV  ·  "découpé" · 7 letters · shape CVCVVCV

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "décompte" and "découpé" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "décompte" is a noun and "découpé" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "décompte" or "découpé" show up more?
"décompte" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,024 in our French list, against #17,935 for "découpé". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "décompte" and "découpé". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "décompte" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "découpé" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #300,481 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "décompte" and "découpé" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "découpé vs décousu". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #300,481 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list