déchirant
\de.ʃi.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“déchirant” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,907. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,907
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui déchire le cœur, l'âme, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dechirant · déchirant · French
déchirant · rank #35,907 · 15 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,907
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH débusquer
Nearest frequency peer: débusquer (-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 « déchirant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- déballer
déballer
64,097 corpus weight
- débarasser
débarasser
64,096 corpus weight
- débusquer
débusquer
64,095 corpus weight
- déchirant
déchirant
64,094 corpus weight
- découler
découler
64,093 corpus weight
- dématériali…
dématérialisation
64,091 corpus weight
What this shows « déchirant » 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 | déchirant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.ʃi.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #35,907 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « déchirant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around déchirant (IPA \de.ʃi.ʁɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #35,907 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui déchire le cœur, l'âme, etc.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for déchirant, with forms such as "dcéhirant", "ddéchirant", and "dechirant". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "désirant", "décidant", "délirant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 déchirant, spelled D-É-C-H-I-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui déchire le cœur, l'âme, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how déchirant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un spectacle déchirant. - Des cris déchirants. - Une situation déchirante. - Des remords déchirants.
Henri se pinça au travers de la jambe de son pantalon pour s’assurer qu’il n’était pas la proie d’un rêve… Non, elle vivait, elle parlait, c’était une jeune Anglaise d’une beauté déchirante, tout à fait cela, oui, déchirante.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dcéhirant
- ddéchirant
- dechirant
- décchirant
- déchhirant
- déchiarnt
- déchirannt
- déchirantt
- déchiratn
- déchirnat
- déchirrant
- déchriant
- décihrant
- déhcirant
- édchirant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of déchirant - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).