décimale
\de.si.mal\
The verdict
“décimale” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,610. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,610
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de décimal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decimale · décimale · French
décimale · rank #49,610 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,610
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déclenchées
Nearest frequency peer: déclenchées (+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 « décimale »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dèche
dèche
50,394 corpus weight
- débattues
débattues
50,393 corpus weight
- décimale
décimale
50,391 corpus weight
- déclenchées
déclenchées
50,390 corpus weight
- découvrais
découvrais
50,389 corpus weight
- décrédibili…
décrédibiliser
50,388 corpus weight
What this shows « décimale » 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 | décimale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.si.mal\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #49,610 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « décimale »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around décimale (IPA \de.si.mal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #49,610 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de décimal.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for décimale, with forms such as "dcéimale", "ddécimale", and "decimale". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "décimée", "décimales", "décale", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 décimale, spelled D-É-C-I-M-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de décimal.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dcéimale
- ddécimale
- decimale
- déccimale
- déciamle
- décimael
- décimalle
- décimlae
- décimmale
- décmiale
- déicmale
- édcimale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of décimale - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "décimale", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).