décevant
\de.sə.vɑ̃\
The verdict
“décevant” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,554. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,554
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui déçoit ; qui cause de la déception.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decevant · décevant · French
décevant · rank #12,554 · 13 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,554
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH durera
Nearest frequency peer: durera (-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 « décevant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dorment
dorment
87,450 corpus weight
- durables
durables
87,449 corpus weight
- durera
durera
87,448 corpus weight
- décevant
décevant
87,447 corpus weight
- déchiré
déchiré
87,446 corpus weight
- défier
défier
87,445 corpus weight
What this shows « décevant » 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 | décevant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.sə.vɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,554 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « décevant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around décevant (IPA \de.sə.vɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,554 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui déçoit ; qui cause de la déception.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for décevant, with forms such as "dcéevant", "ddécevant", and "decevant". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "devant", "devenant", "décidant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is décevant, spelled D-É-C-E-V-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui déçoit ; qui cause de la déception.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how décevant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle ne voulait pas être seule. Elle sentait déjà l’horreur de sa solitude, l’insomnie prolongée, le tête-à-tête décevant avec Dieu.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dcéevant
- ddécevant
- decevant
- déccevant
- déceavnt
- décevannt
- décevantt
- décevatn
- décevnat
- décevvant
- décveant
- déecvant
- édcevant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of décevant - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).