déchu
\de.ʃy\
The verdict
“déchu” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,934. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,934
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a perdu sa dignité, son rang, sa réputation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dechu · déchu · French
déchu · rank #17,934 · 8 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,934
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH découpé
Nearest frequency peer: découpé (+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 « déchu »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- doublée
doublée
82,070 corpus weight
- douteuses
douteuses
82,069 corpus weight
- déchu
déchu
82,067 corpus weight
- découpé
découpé
82,066 corpus weight
- défectueux
défectueux
82,065 corpus weight
- dégradations
dégradations
82,064 corpus weight
What this shows « déchu » 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 | déchu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.ʃy\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #17,934 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « déchu »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around déchu (IPA \de.ʃy\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,934 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui a perdu sa dignité, son rang, sa réputation.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for déchu, with forms such as "dcéhu", "ddéchu", and "dechu". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "deu", "déçu", "deco", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is déchu, spelled D-É-C-H-U.
Definition
- 1Qui a perdu sa dignité, son rang, sa réputation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how déchu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous allons marcher sur le Louvre et nous y entrerons à la tête de la compagnie. Vous ferez conduire le roi déchu à Vincennes.
Souvent, il se contentait d’appeler son fils « enfant déchu ». Il criait : « Va me chercher du tabac, enfant déchu… Remonte une bouteille de bière, enfant déchu… »
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dcéhu
- ddéchu
- dechu
- décchu
- déchhu
- décuh
- déhcu
- édchu
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of déchu - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).