défilent
\de.fil\
The verdict
“défilent” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,122. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,122
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de défiler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-defilent · défilent · French
défilent · rank #20,122 · 13 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,122
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déboires
Nearest frequency peer: déboires (-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 « défilent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dynamite
dynamite
79,881 corpus weight
- déboires
déboires
79,880 corpus weight
- défilent
défilent
79,879 corpus weight
- déguisée
déguisée
79,878 corpus weight
- délibératio…
délibérations
79,877 corpus weight
- déplorer
déplorer
79,876 corpus weight
What this shows « défilent » 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 | défilent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.fil\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,122 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « défilent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around défilent (IPA \de.fil\), averb. Corpus frequency is #20,122 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for défilent, with forms such as "ddéfilent", "defilent", and "dféilent". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "devient", "détient", "défiler", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is défilent, spelled D-É-F-I-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de défiler.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de défiler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how défilent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur l’eau défilent de spectaculaires parades de bateaux tout comme les régates de voile ainsi que des courses de dragon boat.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddéfilent
- defilent
- dféilent
- déffilent
- défielnt
- défilennt
- défilentt
- défiletn
- défillent
- défilnet
- déflient
- déiflent
- édfilent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of défilent - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "défilent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).