déesse

\de.ɛs\

/\de.ɛs\/ noun

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The verdict

“déesse” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,098. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#8,098
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
18
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Divinité de genre féminin.

Corpus desk

Index FR-deesse · déesse · French

déesse · rank #8,098 · 7 variants · 18 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #8,098
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH diront

Nearest frequency peer: diront (-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 « déesse »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « déesse » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

déesse vs DESS
0% similar
déesse vs dense
67% similar
déesse vs dièse
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for déesse
PropertyValue
Headworddéesse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\de.ɛs\
Letters6
Frequency rank#8,098
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs18
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « déesse »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).déessese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « diront » (#8,097), « déménager » (#8,099), « diplomatie » (#8,096). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « déesse » est au #8,098. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around déesse (IPA \de.ɛs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,098 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for déesse, with forms such as "ddéesse", "deesse", and "deésse". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "DESS", "dense", "dièse", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 déesse, spelled D-É-E-S-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Divinité de genre féminin.
  2. 2
    Femme qui est d’une beauté majestueuse.
  3. 3
    Cocaïne.
  4. 4
    La Citroën DS, par homophonie de l’acronyme.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how déesse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Elle ne croyait pas à Aphrodite, mais elle aimait qu’on lui comparât la déesse, et elle allait quelquefois au temple, pour lui donner, comme à une amie, des boîtes de parfums et des voiles bleus.
  2. Mars, identifié avec le dieu grec Arès, l’a été aussi avec le dieu gaulois Toutatis; Minerve, confondue avec la déesse grecque Athéna, l’a été aussi avec la déesse gauloise Belisama, etc.

This word in other languages

goddess(English)diosa(Español)Göttin(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddéesse
  • deesse
  • deésse
  • déese
  • déeses
  • désese
  • édesse

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of déesse - 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.

ddéesse1deesse1deésse2déese1déeses2désese2édesse2
Edit distance from "déesse"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "déesse"?
"déesse" is spelled D-É-E-S-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \de.ɛs\.
What does "déesse" mean?
As a noun, "déesse" means: Divinité de genre féminin.
What words are commonly confused with "déesse"?
"déesse" is commonly confused with "DESS", "dense", "dièse". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "déesse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "déesse" is \de.ɛs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "déesse" come from?
"déesse" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "déesse", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

diront#8,097coûter#8,089carter#8,077loisir#8,121

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

dense7 variantsjadis7 variantsmenti7 variantsvolée7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list