déboires
\de.bwaʁ\
The verdict
“déboires” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,121. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,121
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de déboire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deboires · déboires · French
déboires · rank #20,121 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,121
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dynamite
Nearest frequency peer: dynamite (-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 « déboires »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dortoir
dortoir
79,883 corpus weight
- dynamite
dynamite
79,881 corpus weight
- déboires
déboires
79,880 corpus weight
- défilent
défilent
79,879 corpus weight
- déguisée
déguisée
79,878 corpus weight
- délibératio…
délibérations
79,877 corpus weight
What this shows « déboires » 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 | déboires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.bwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « déboires »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around déboires (IPA \de.bwaʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,121 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de déboire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for déboires, with forms such as "dbéoires", "ddéboires", and "deboires". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "devoirs", "délires", "décorés", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented 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 déboires, spelled D-É-B-O-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de déboire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how déboires appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dbéoires
- ddéboires
- deboires
- débboires
- débiores
- déboiers
- déboiress
- déboirres
- déboirse
- débories
- déobires
- édboires
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of déboires - 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).