décideur
\de.si.dœʁ\
The verdict
“décideur” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,994. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,994
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui décide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decideur · décideur · French
décideur · rank #44,994 · 12 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,994
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déballage
Nearest frequency peer: déballage (-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 « décideur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Duarte
Duarte
55,010 corpus weight
- dunk
dunk
55,009 corpus weight
- déballage
déballage
55,008 corpus weight
- décideur
décideur
55,007 corpus weight
- déclarera
déclarera
55,006 corpus weight
- déficients
déficients
55,005 corpus weight
What this shows « décideur » 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 | décideur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.si.dœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #44,994 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « décideur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around décideur (IPA \de.si.dœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,994 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Personne qui décide.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for décideur, with forms such as "dcéideur", "ddécideur", and "decideur". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "décidez", "décoder", "décodeur", and more, 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is décideur, spelled D-É-C-I-D-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Personne qui décide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how décideur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
M. de Vendôme répondit à Roquelaure qu’il était un mauvais décideur [au jeu] et qu’il se mêlait toujours de ce qu’il n’avait que faire.
Et pour que les usagers de base puissent aider les décideurs à dissoudre les poches de résistance des corporatismes intermédiaires de tous poils ?
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dcéideur
- ddécideur
- decideur
- déccideur
- décdieur
- déciddeur
- décideru
- décideurr
- déciduer
- déciedur
- déicdeur
- édcideur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of décideur - 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).