décourageant
\de.ku.ʁa.ʒɑ̃\
The verdict
“décourageant” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,397. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,397
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui décourage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decourageant · décourageant · French
décourageant · rank #43,397 · 18 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #43,397
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH décapotable
Nearest frequency peer: décapotable (-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 « décourageant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- débouté
débouté
56,606 corpus weight
- décapotable
décapotable
56,605 corpus weight
- décourageant
décourageant
56,604 corpus weight
- démentis
démentis
56,603 corpus weight
- dénudée
dénudée
56,602 corpus weight
- dépensée
dépensée
56,601 corpus weight
What this shows « décourageant » 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 | décourageant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.ku.ʁa.ʒɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #43,397 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « décourageant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around décourageant (IPA \de.ku.ʁa.ʒɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #43,397 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui décourage.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for décourageant, with forms such as "dcéourageant", "ddécourageant", and "decourageant". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "découragement", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is décourageant, spelled D-É-C-O-U-R-A-G-E-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui décourage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how décourageant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des obstacles décourageants. - Ce maître, ce professeur est décourageant par sa sévérité. - Cet élève est décourageant par sa paresse. - Cet écrivain est d’une perfection décourageante.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dcéourageant
- ddécourageant
- decourageant
- déccourageant
- décoruageant
- découargeant
- découraegant
- découragaent
- décourageannt
- décourageantt
- décourageatn
- découragenat
- découraggeant
- décourgaeant
- décourrageant
- décuorageant
- déocurageant
- édcourageant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of décourageant - 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 "décourageant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).