decide
\dɪˈsɑɪd\
The verdict
“decide” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,555. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,555
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Décider.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decide · decide · French
decide · rank #30,555 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,555
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Cézanne
Nearest frequency peer: Cézanne (-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 « decide »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- csi
csi
69,449 corpus weight
- culpabilise
culpabilise
69,448 corpus weight
- Cézanne
Cézanne
69,447 corpus weight
- decide
decide
69,446 corpus weight
- Decker
Decker
69,445 corpus weight
- Delorme
Delorme
69,444 corpus weight
What this shows « decide » 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 | decide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dɪˈsɑɪd\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #30,555 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « decide »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around decide (IPA \dɪˈsɑɪd\), averb. Corpus frequency is #30,555 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Décider.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for decide, with forms such as "dceide", "ddecide", and "deccide". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "demie", "déçue", "défie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is decide, spelled D-E-C-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Décider.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dceide
- ddecide
- deccide
- decdie
- decidde
- decied
- deicde
- edcide
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of decide - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "decide", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).