déblayer
\de.ble.je\
The verdict
“déblayer” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,848. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,848
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Débarrasser, dégager un lieu des choses qui l’encombrent, qui s’y trouvent entassées confusément.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deblayer · déblayer · French
déblayer · rank #47,848 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,848
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dz
Nearest frequency peer: dz (-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 « déblayer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dulcinée
dulcinée
52,156 corpus weight
- duplication
duplication
52,155 corpus weight
- dz
dz
52,154 corpus weight
- déblayer
déblayer
52,153 corpus weight
- débrouillard
débrouillard
52,152 corpus weight
- décents
décents
52,151 corpus weight
What this shows « déblayer » 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 | déblayer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.ble.je\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #47,848 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « déblayer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around déblayer (IPA \de.ble.je\), averb. Corpus frequency is #47,848 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for déblayer, with forms such as "dbélayer", "ddéblayer", and "deblayer". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "déplacer", "déclarer", "déployer", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is déblayer, spelled D-É-B-L-A-Y-E-R.
Definition
- 1Débarrasser, dégager un lieu des choses qui l’encombrent, qui s’y trouvent entassées confusément.
- 2Prononcer vite, sans s’attarder, toutes les parties secondaires d’une scène, d’un morceau, pour mettre en relief les principales.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how déblayer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] la neige tomba en grande abondance. Elle couvrit bientôt le sol sur une hauteur de plusieurs pieds. Il fallut chaque jour déblayer les abords de la maison.
Dans les dépressions où leur puissance était grande, les prêles ont protégé les roches meubles sous-jacentes, tandis que l’érosion déblayait celles-ci là où cette couverture protectrice était absente ou moins épaisse.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dbélayer
- ddéblayer
- deblayer
- débalyer
- débblayer
- déblaeyr
- déblayerr
- déblayre
- déblayyer
- débllayer
- déblyaer
- délbayer
- édblayer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of déblayer - 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).