défaut
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,950
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
défaut is aFrenchnoun. It means: Imperfection physique. Pronounced \de.fo\. It ranks #1,950 in French word frequency. Often confused with dégât and devant.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | défaut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.fo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,950 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for défaut is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.fo\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,950 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for défaut, with forms such as "ddéfaut", "defaut", and "dféaut". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "dégât", "devant", "départ", 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 défaut, spelled D-É-F-A-U-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Imperfection physique.
- 2Imperfection morale.
- 3Ce qui n’est pas conforme aux règles de l’art, de ce qui choque le goût, le bon sens, dans un ouvrage, dans une production quelconque.
- 4Parties faibles ou défectueuses dans une étoffe, dans du bois, dans un ouvrage quelconque.
- 5Absence, manque, privation de quelque chose.
- 6Absence de certaines qualités, de certains avantages.
- 7Manquement à une assignation ou une convocation.
- 8Manière d’arrondir.
- 9Endroit du corps où se termine une pièce anatomique.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddéfaut,defaut,dféaut,déafut,défatu,défautt,déffaut,défuat,édfaut
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for défaut
Misspelling Variants of "défaut"
Frequency rank: #1,950 in French
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Nearby French words
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