débutante
\de.by.tɑ̃t\
The verdict
“débutante” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,229. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,229
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui débute.
Corpus desk
Index FR-debutante · débutante · French
débutante · rank #33,229 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,229
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH débattent
Nearest frequency peer: débattent (-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 « débutante »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Duclos
Duclos
66,775 corpus weight
- during
during
66,774 corpus weight
- débattent
débattent
66,773 corpus weight
- débutante
débutante
66,772 corpus weight
- décoder
décoder
66,771 corpus weight
- décodeur
décodeur
66,770 corpus weight
What this shows « débutante » 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 | débutante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.by.tɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #33,229 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « débutante »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around débutante (IPA \de.by.tɑ̃t\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,229 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for débutante, with forms such as "dbéutante", "ddébutante", and "debutante". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "débutent", "débutants", "débutant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is débutante, spelled D-É-B-U-T-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui débute.
- 2Jeune femme de la haute société qui fait sa première apparition en société.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how débutante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
S’il s'avère qu’elle m’a menti, alors je me suis fait avoir comme une débutante.
Née en 1889, ma mère ne tarda pas à envoûter les reporters par sa beauté qui d’emblée faisait d’elle la reine des bals des débutantes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dbéutante
- ddébutante
- debutante
- débbutante
- débtuante
- débuatnte
- débutanet
- débutannte
- débutantte
- débutatne
- débutnate
- débuttante
- déubtante
- édbutante
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of débutante - 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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