débat
\de.ba\
The verdict
“débat” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,201. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,201
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de débattre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-debat · débat · French
débat · rank #1,201 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,201
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH drôle
Nearest frequency peer: drôle (-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 « débat »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Belgique
Belgique
98,803 corpus weight
- camp
camp
98,802 corpus weight
- drôle
drôle
98,801 corpus weight
- débat
débat
98,800 corpus weight
- John
John
98,798 corpus weight
- oublier
oublier
98,797 corpus weight
What this shows « débat » 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 | débat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.ba\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,201 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « débat »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around débat (IPA \de.ba\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,201 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for débat, with forms such as "dbéat", "ddébat", and "debat". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "det", "déjà", "dent", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 débat, spelled D-É-B-A-T.
Definition
- 1Action de débattre.
- 2Contestation, altercation.
- 3Discussion sur un sujet pouvant conduire à une décision
- 4Discussion, en parlant des assemblées politiques.
- 5Discussion publique.
- 6Fesses, arrière-train, en particulier d’une jeune femme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how débat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par-delà les débats idéologiques, on a déjà pointé les dérives potentielles d’une société ultra-gérée (de Gaulejac, 2005) dans laquelle la production se réoriente en fonction d’indicateurs et d’objectifs de plus en plus souvent détachés de la réalité, tandis que le non-mesurable tend à être négligé.
Ainsi la télévision publique est-elle un thème de débat, une posture obligée, une rhétorique de salon qui mériterait de figurer dans les mythologies des couches cultivées.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dbéat
- ddébat
- debat
- déabt
- débatt
- débbat
- débta
- édbat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of débat - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).