debout
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,770
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
debout is anFrenchadj. It means: Qualifie un vent, de face, quand il est en sens contraire au mouvement de l’aéronef, du navire, etc. Pronounced \də.bu\. It ranks #2,770 in French word frequency. Often confused with début and dépôt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | debout |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \də.bu\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,770 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for debout is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \də.bu\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,770 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for debout, with forms such as "dbeout", "ddebout", and "debbout". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "début", "dépôt", "défaut", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is debout, spelled D-E-B-O-U-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qualifie un vent, de face, quand il est en sens contraire au mouvement de l’aéronef, du navire, etc.
- 2Qualifie la magistrature qui accuse (par opposition à celle assise qui rend le jugement).
- 3Qualifie le bois pris dans le sens des fibres.
- 4Qui n'est pas couché.
- 5Se dit d’animaux en particulier l’ours qui est représenté dressé sur ses pattes arrière. À rapprocher de en pied, levé et rampant.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: dbeout,ddebout,debbout,debotu,deboutt,debuot,deobut,edbout
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for debout
Misspelling Variants of "debout"
Frequency rank: #2,770 in French
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