déchirent
\de.ʃiʁ\
The verdict
“déchirent” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,041. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,041
- frequency rank, French
- 404,891
- “D” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de déchirer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dechirent · déchirent · French
déchirent · rank #27,041 · 15 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,041
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 404,891
- PHOTO-FINISH durcissement
Nearest frequency peer: durcissement (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “déchirent”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- dissident
dissident
72,964 corpus weight
- doi
doi
72,963 corpus weight
- douanière
douanière
72,962 corpus weight
- durcissement
durcissement
72,961 corpus weight
- déchirent
déchirent
72,960 corpus weight
- dépouilles
dépouilles
72,958 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “déchirent” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | déchirent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.ʃiʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #27,041 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “déchirent” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around déchirent (IPA \de.ʃiʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #27,041 among 404,891 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for déchirent, with forms such as "dcéhirent", "ddéchirent", and "dechirent". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "décident", "désirent", "déchirer", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is déchirent, spelled D-É-C-H-I-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de déchirer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de déchirer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dcéhirent
- ddéchirent
- dechirent
- décchirent
- déchhirent
- déchiernt
- déchirennt
- déchirentt
- déchiretn
- déchirnet
- déchirrent
- déchrient
- décihrent
- déhcirent
- édchirent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of déchirent - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "déchirent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.