défavorable
\de.fa.vɔ.ʁabl\
The verdict
“défavorable” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,576. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,576
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui n’est pas favorable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-defavorable · défavorable · French
défavorable · rank #13,576 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #13,576
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH défends
Nearest frequency peer: défends (+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 « défavorable »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dotés
dotés
86,429 corpus weight
- décevoir
décevoir
86,428 corpus weight
- décrits
décrits
86,427 corpus weight
- défavorable
défavorable
86,425 corpus weight
- défends
défends
86,424 corpus weight
- défiance
défiance
86,423 corpus weight
What this shows « défavorable » 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 | défavorable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.fa.vɔ.ʁabl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #13,576 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « défavorable »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around défavorable (IPA \de.fa.vɔ.ʁabl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,576 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui n’est pas favorable.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for défavorable, with forms such as "ddéfavorable", "defavorable", and "dféavorable". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "défavorables", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is défavorable, spelled D-É-F-A-V-O-R-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui n’est pas favorable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how défavorable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces espèces adventices, dont les graines sont apportées avec les semences introduites, ont pu résister à des conditions climatiques défavorables […]
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddéfavorable
- defavorable
- dféavorable
- déafvorable
- défaovrable
- défavoarble
- défavorabble
- défavorabel
- défavorablle
- défavoralbe
- défavorbale
- défavorrable
- défavroable
- défavvorable
- déffavorable
- défvaorable
- édfavorable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of défavorable - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).