déficience
\de.fi.sjɑ̃s\
The verdict
“déficience” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,184. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,184
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Défaillance intellectuelle ou physique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deficience · déficience · French
déficience · rank #23,184 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,184
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH découvrira
Nearest frequency peer: découvrira (-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 « déficience »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dressent
dressent
76,821 corpus weight
- découvrira
découvrira
76,818 corpus weight
- déficience
déficience
76,817 corpus weight
- délimitation
délimitation
76,816 corpus weight
- dénigrer
dénigrer
76,815 corpus weight
- dénué
dénué
76,814 corpus weight
What this shows « déficience » 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 | déficience |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.fi.sjɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #23,184 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « déficience »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around déficience (IPA \de.fi.sjɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,184 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Défaillance intellectuelle ou physique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for déficience, with forms such as "ddéficience", "deficience", and "dféicience". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "déficients", "déficiente", "déficiences", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is déficience, spelled D-É-F-I-C-I-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Défaillance intellectuelle ou physique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how déficience appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cet enfant souffre d'une déficience physique
Je ne parle convenablement aucune langue étrangère et cela, joint à beaucoup d’autres choses, me donne une impression de déficience et d’isolement.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddéficience
- deficience
- dféicience
- défciience
- défficience
- déficcience
- déficeince
- déficiecne
- déficiencce
- déficienec
- déficiennce
- déficinece
- défiicence
- déifcience
- édficience
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of déficience - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).