déconvenue
\de.kɔ̃v.ny\
The verdict
“déconvenue” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,299. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,299
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Déception causée par un insuccès.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deconvenue · déconvenue · French
déconvenue · rank #47,299 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #47,299
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déchaînent
Nearest frequency peer: déchaînent (-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 « déconvenue »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- décapitée
décapitée
52,704 corpus weight
- déchaînent
déchaînent
52,703 corpus weight
- déconvenue
déconvenue
52,702 corpus weight
- décoratrice
décoratrice
52,701 corpus weight
- décriée
décriée
52,700 corpus weight
- déménageurs
déménageurs
52,699 corpus weight
What this shows « déconvenue » 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 | déconvenue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.kɔ̃v.ny\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #47,299 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « déconvenue »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around déconvenue (IPA \de.kɔ̃v.ny\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,299 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Déception causée par un insuccès.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for déconvenue, with forms such as "dcéonvenue", "ddéconvenue", and "deconvenue". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "déconvenues", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 déconvenue, spelled D-É-C-O-N-V-E-N-U-E.
Definition
- 1Déception causée par un insuccès.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how déconvenue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Là dessus il conta, sans en rien oublier, Toute sa déconvenuë, Puis vint à celle du Roy.
Je pourrai me permettre d’aller au théâtre rire de mes propres déconvenues, ou bien chercher mon lait chez le boutiquier du coin sans craindre les badauds.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dcéonvenue
- ddéconvenue
- deconvenue
- décconvenue
- décnovenue
- déconevnue
- déconnvenue
- déconveneu
- déconvennue
- déconveune
- déconvneue
- déconvvenue
- décovnenue
- déocnvenue
- édconvenue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of déconvenue - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).