décident
\de.sid\
The verdict
“décident” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,605. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,605
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de décider.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decident · décident · French
décident · rank #6,605 · 13 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,605
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH documentation
Nearest frequency peer: documentation (-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 « décident »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Diego
Diego
93,399 corpus weight
- diffusée
diffusée
93,398 corpus weight
- documentati…
documentation
93,397 corpus weight
- décident
décident
93,396 corpus weight
- défenseurs
défenseurs
93,395 corpus weight
- délicieux
délicieux
93,394 corpus weight
What this shows « décident » 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 | décident |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.sid\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,605 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « décident »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around décident (IPA \de.sid\), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,605 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for décident, with forms such as "dcéident", "ddécident", and "decident". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "devient", "détient", "décides", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 décident, spelled D-É-C-I-D-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de décider.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de décider.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how décident appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais si les nourricières se décident à operculer les cellules, c’est que l’essaim primaire est parti ou qu’il doit nécessairement partir sous peu.
— Bon sang, je suis totalement impuissant. Des gens décident de mon sort, s’arrogent le droit de gouverner ma vie, de voler mon amour, de tuer mon enfant, et je ne peux rien faire…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dcéident
- ddécident
- decident
- déccident
- décdient
- déciddent
- décidennt
- décidentt
- décidetn
- décidnet
- déciednt
- déicdent
- édcident
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of décident - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).