défaite
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,121
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
défaite is aFrenchnoun. It means: Déroute d’une armée ou de quelques troupes. Pronounced \de.fɛt\. It ranks #2,121 in French word frequency. Often confused with défie and devait.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | défaite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.fɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for défaite is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.fɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,121 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for défaite, with forms such as "ddéfaite", "defaite", and "dféaite". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "défie", "devait", "défaut", 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 défaite, spelled D-É-F-A-I-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Déroute d’une armée ou de quelques troupes.
- 2Facilité plus ou moins grande de se défaire de quelque chose.
- 3Excuse artificieuse, mauvaise raison, prétexte.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddéfaite,defaite,dféaite,déafite,défaiet,défaitte,défatie,déffaite,défiate,édfaite
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for défaite
Misspelling Variants of "défaite"
Frequency rank: #2,121 in French
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