Debian
\deb.jan\
The verdict
“Debian” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,209. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,209
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organisation ayant pour but de développer un système d’exploitation basé exclusivement sur des logiciels libres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-debian · Debian · French
Debian · rank #33,209 · 8 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,209
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH diamétralement
Nearest frequency peer: diamétralement (+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 « Debian »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- D4
D4
66,795 corpus weight
- Danton
Danton
66,794 corpus weight
- Debian
Debian
66,792 corpus weight
- diamétralem…
diamétralement
66,791 corpus weight
- dictées
dictées
66,790 corpus weight
- digestifs
digestifs
66,789 corpus weight
What this shows « Debian » 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 | Debian |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \deb.jan\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #33,209 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Debian »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Debian (IPA \deb.jan\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #33,209 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Debian, with forms such as "dbeian", "ddebian", and "debain". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "devin", "Debra", "Design", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Debian, spelled D-E-B-I-A-N.
Definition
- 1Organisation ayant pour but de développer un système d’exploitation basé exclusivement sur des logiciels libres.
- 2La distribution correspondante du système d’exploitation Linux, caractérisée par la grande durée de vie de ses versions.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Debian appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
deux versions de la Debian sont intéressantes, la « stale » et la « usable » (jeu de mots sur « stable » et « unstable »).
L'homme est connu pour avoir créé la célèbre distribution Linux Debian, appréciée des puristes du Libre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dbeian
- ddebian
- debain
- debbian
- debiann
- debina
- deiban
- edbian
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Debian - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).