découvrit
\de.ku.vʁi\
The verdict
“découvrit” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,816. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,816
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de découvrir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-decouvrit · découvrit · French
découvrit · rank #19,816 · 14 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,816
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH débordements
Nearest frequency peer: débordements (-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 « découvrit »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- débauche
débauche
80,188 corpus weight
- débordement
débordement
80,187 corpus weight
- débordements
débordements
80,186 corpus weight
- découvrit
découvrit
80,185 corpus weight
- déforestati…
déforestation
80,184 corpus weight
- déportés
déportés
80,183 corpus weight
What this shows « découvrit » 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 | découvrit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.ku.vʁi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #19,816 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « découvrit »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around découvrit (IPA \de.ku.vʁi\), averb. Corpus frequency is #19,816 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de découvrir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for découvrit, with forms such as "dcéouvrit", "ddécouvrit", and "decouvrit". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "découvre", "découvrir", "découvert", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is découvrit, spelled D-É-C-O-U-V-R-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de découvrir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how découvrit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parmi les cadeaux qu’il découvrit au fur et à mesure, une boîte à chaussure entourée d’un ruban rouge l’interrogeait.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dcéouvrit
- ddécouvrit
- decouvrit
- déccouvrit
- décourvit
- découvirt
- découvritt
- découvrrit
- découvrti
- découvvrit
- décovurit
- décuovrit
- déocuvrit
- édcouvrit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of découvrit - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).