découragement
\de.ku.ʁaʒ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“découragement” has 20 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,653. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,653
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État de celui qui est découragé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decouragement · découragement · French
découragement · rank #33,653 · 20 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #33,653
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH découpées
Nearest frequency peer: découpées (-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 « découragement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Dudley
Dudley
66,352 corpus weight
- déchargement
déchargement
66,351 corpus weight
- découpées
découpées
66,349 corpus weight
- décourageme…
découragement
66,348 corpus weight
- déflation
déflation
66,346 corpus weight
- défoncée
défoncée
66,345 corpus weight
What this shows « découragement » 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 | découragement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.ku.ʁaʒ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #33,653 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « découragement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around découragement (IPA \de.ku.ʁaʒ.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,653 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "État de celui qui est découragé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for découragement, with forms such as "dcéouragement", "ddécouragement", and "decouragement". 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, "décourageant", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 découragement, spelled D-É-C-O-U-R-A-G-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1État de celui qui est découragé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how découragement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quant à moi, j’éprouvais un étrange découragement, quelque chose comme le pressentiment d’un grand malheur.
Lorsque quelque difficulté les retardait, lorsque quelque éboulement survenait et détruisait une partie du travail accompli, ils sentaient le découragement les prendre,...
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dcéouragement
- ddécouragement
- decouragement
- déccouragement
- décoruagement
- découargement
- découraegment
- décourageemnt
- découragemennt
- découragementt
- découragemetn
- découragemment
- découragemnet
- découraggement
- découragmeent
- décourgaement
- décourragement
- décuoragement
- déocuragement
- édcouragement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of découragement - 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 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 here; floor ≥5).