dédain

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for dédain is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.dɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #27,783 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is dédain, spelled D-É-D-A-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.