dédale
\de.dal\
The verdict
“dédale” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,989. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,989
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Labyrinthe, lieu où l’on s’égare, où l’on se perd, à cause de la complication des détours.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dedale · dédale · French
dédale · rank #30,989 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,989
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH découvres
Nearest frequency peer: découvres (-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 « dédale »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- décemment
décemment
69,015 corpus weight
- découvrait
découvrait
69,014 corpus weight
- découvres
découvres
69,013 corpus weight
- dédale
dédale
69,012 corpus weight
- dédommager
dédommager
69,011 corpus weight
- déesses
déesses
69,010 corpus weight
What this shows « dédale » 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 | dédale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.dal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #30,989 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dédale »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around dédale (IPA \de.dal\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,989 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for dédale, with forms such as "ddéale", "ddédale", and "dedale". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dédie", "Delle", "dedans", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 dédale, spelled D-É-D-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Labyrinthe, lieu où l’on s’égare, où l’on se perd, à cause de la complication des détours.
- 2Embarras dont il est très difficile de sortir, choses très compliquées qu’il est difficile de concevoir nettement ou de débrouiller.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dédale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], et je repris, avec tristesse, mon chemin à travers les dédales des rues.
Il s'y trouva d'abord un peu dépaysé, mais son introducteur lui servit de guide à travers le dédale des portants et le conduisit derrière la toile de fond.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddéale
- ddédale
- dedale
- déadle
- dédael
- dédalle
- déddale
- dédlae
- éddale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dédale - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).