dédain
\de.dɛ̃\
The verdict
“dédain” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,783. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,783
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mépris exprimé par l’air, le ton ou le maintien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dedain · dédain · French
dédain · rank #27,783 · 9 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,783
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déclinaisons
Nearest frequency peer: déclinaisons (-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 « dédain »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Dwight
Dwight
72,221 corpus weight
- débloque
débloque
72,220 corpus weight
- déclinaisons
déclinaisons
72,219 corpus weight
- dédain
dédain
72,218 corpus weight
- défendus
défendus
72,217 corpus weight
- dégénérer
dégénérer
72,216 corpus weight
What this shows « dédain » 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 | dédain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.dɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #27,783 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dédain »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around dédain (IPA \de.dɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,783 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Mépris exprimé par l’air, le ton ou le maintien.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for dédain, with forms such as "ddéain", "ddédain", and "dedain". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "délai", "devin", "dédie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dédain, spelled D-É-D-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1Mépris exprimé par l’air, le ton ou le maintien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dédain appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le dédain profond que Modeste conçut alors de tous les hommes ordinaires imprima bientôt à sa figure je ne sais quoi de fier, de sauvage qui tempéra sa naïveté germanique, […].
Entre la gueule du pot et celle d’un licheur, il y a la place d’une vipère, et tu m’y trouveras !… dit-elle excitée par le dédain de Nucingen.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddéain
- ddédain
- dedain
- déadin
- dédainn
- dédani
- déddain
- dédian
- éddain
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dédain - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dédain", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).