débarras
\de.ba.ʁa\
The verdict
“débarras” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,288. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,288
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Délivrance de ce qui embarrassait, en parlant des personnes aussi bien que des choses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-debarras · débarras · French
débarras · rank #25,288 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #25,288
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH duvet
Nearest frequency peer: duvet (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « débarras »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- DIY
DIY
74,716 corpus weight
- duos
duos
74,715 corpus weight
- duvet
duvet
74,714 corpus weight
- débarras
débarras
74,713 corpus weight
- décalée
décalée
74,712 corpus weight
- décidèrent
décidèrent
74,711 corpus weight
What this shows « débarras » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | débarras |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.ba.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #25,288 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « débarras »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around débarras (IPA \de.ba.ʁa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,288 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for débarras, with forms such as "dbéarras", "ddébarras", and "debarras". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "débarrasse", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is débarras, spelled D-É-B-A-R-R-A-S.
Definition
- 1Délivrance de ce qui embarrassait, en parlant des personnes aussi bien que des choses.
- 2Endroit où l’on remise les objets inutiles, encombrants.
- 3Clairière, coupe claire aux abords des lignes électriques, des routes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how débarras appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quel bon débarras !
Les voilà partis, c’est un grand débarras.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dbéarras
- ddébarras
- debarras
- déabrras
- débarars
- débaras
- débarrass
- débarrsa
- débbarras
- débraras
- édbarras
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of débarras - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).