December
\dɪˈsɛm.bɚ\
The verdict
“December” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,709. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,709
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Décembre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-december · December · French
December · rank #40,709 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,709
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Delahaye
Nearest frequency peer: Delahaye (+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 « December »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cyclope
cyclope
59,296 corpus weight
- cédait
cédait
59,295 corpus weight
- December
December
59,292 corpus weight
- Delahaye
Delahaye
59,291 corpus weight
- Delphes
Delphes
59,290 corpus weight
- demandèrent
demandèrent
59,289 corpus weight
What this shows « December » 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 | December |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dɪˈsɛm.bɚ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #40,709 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « December »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around December (IPA \dɪˈsɛm.bɚ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #40,709 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Décembre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for December, with forms such as "dceember", "ddecember", and "deccember". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "décembre", "décerner", "déceler", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 December, spelled D-E-C-E-M-B-E-R.
Definition
- 1Décembre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dceember
- ddecember
- deccember
- decebmer
- decembber
- decemberr
- decemebr
- decemmber
- decmeber
- deecmber
- edcember
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of December - 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).