défaits
\de.fɛ\
The verdict
“défaits” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,789. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,789
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de défait.
Corpus desk
Index FR-defaits · défaits · French
défaits · rank #32,789 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,789
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH défaillante
Nearest frequency peer: défaillante (-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 « défaits »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- découvrons
découvrons
67,215 corpus weight
- déduis
déduis
67,214 corpus weight
- défaillante
défaillante
67,213 corpus weight
- défaits
défaits
67,212 corpus weight
- défensifs
défensifs
67,211 corpus weight
- déguisements
déguisements
67,209 corpus weight
What this shows « défaits » 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 | défaits |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.fɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,789 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « défaits »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around défaits (IPA \de.fɛ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,789 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de défait.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for défaits, with forms such as "ddéfaits", "defaits", and "dféaits". 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, "défis", "devait", "défaut", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is défaits, spelled D-É-F-A-I-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de défait.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how défaits appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand ils entrent au cabaret, ils sont mornes, défaits et languissants ; peu après qu’ils ont pris deux ou trois tasses de ce breuvage, ils sont hargneux et comme enragés ; tout leur déplait, ils rebutent tout et s’entre-querellent.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddéfaits
- defaits
- dféaits
- déafits
- défaist
- défaitss
- défaitts
- défatis
- déffaits
- défiats
- édfaits
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of défaits - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).