décibels
\de.si.bɛl\
The verdict
“décibels” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,899. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,899
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de décibel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decibels · décibels · French
décibels · rank #43,899 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,899
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH débarques
Nearest frequency peer: débarques (-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 « décibels »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- DST
DST
56,105 corpus weight
- Ducati
Ducati
56,104 corpus weight
- débarques
débarques
56,103 corpus weight
- décibels
décibels
56,102 corpus weight
- décodeurs
décodeurs
56,101 corpus weight
- dédicacée
dédicacée
56,100 corpus weight
What this shows « décibels » 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 | décibels |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.si.bɛl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #43,899 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « décibels »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around décibels (IPA \de.si.bɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,899 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de décibel.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for décibels, with forms such as "dcéibels", "ddécibels", and "decibels". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "décides", "décidées", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is décibels, spelled D-É-C-I-B-E-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de décibel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how décibels appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En mettant de côté les supporteurs argentino-indiens, dont le cas reste à élucider, seuls les Tunisiens et les Marcains réussissent à faire monter les décibels à peu près convenablement.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dcéibels
- ddécibels
- decibels
- décbiels
- déccibels
- décibbels
- décibells
- décibelss
- décibesl
- décibles
- déciebls
- déicbels
- édcibels
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of décibels - 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).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).