déforestation

Name: déforestation, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\de.fɔ.ʁɛs.ta.sjɔ̃\

/\de.fɔ.ʁɛs.ta.sjɔ̃\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“déforestation” has 20 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,817. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#19,817
frequency rank, French: 5,307
“D” headwords: 20
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Diminution des surfaces couvertes de forêts.

Corpus desk

Index FR-deforestation · déforestation · French

déforestation · rank #19,817 · 20 variants · 0 confusables

FREQ-MID #19,817
LEN-MEGA 13 letters
VOW-6 6 vowels
CONFUS-0 No pairs
VAR-HIGH 20 variants
BOOK-DENSE 5,307
PHOTO-FINISH découvrit

Nearest frequency peer: découvrit (-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.

débordement

80,187
débordements

80,186
découvrit

80,185
déforestati…

80,184
déportés

80,183
déserts

80,182

What this shows « déforestation » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Key facts for déforestation
Property	Value
Headword	déforestation
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\de.fɔ.ʁɛs.ta.sjɔ̃\
Letters	13
Frequency rank	#19,817
Misspellings tracked	20
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « déforestation »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.déforestationse place ici:

#19,817

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « découvrit » (#19,816), « déportés » (#19,818), « débordements » (#19,815). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « déforestation » est au #19,817. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 20 spelling variants around déforestation (IPA \de.fɔ.ʁɛs.ta.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,817 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Diminution des surfaces couvertes de forêts.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for déforestation, with forms such as "ddéforestation", "deforestation", and "dféorestation". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is déforestation, spelled D-É-F-O-R-E-S-T-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

1
Diminution des surfaces couvertes de forêts.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how déforestation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

Haro sur l'huile de palme, accusée de contribuer à la déforestation et d'être nocive pour nos artères.
Il y a aussi certains alliés d’hier qui risquent de se retrouver dans le coin, isolés: le Brésil surtout, avec son président, Bolsonaro, qui était copain-copain avec Donald Trump et qui est dénoncé à l’échelle internationale pour sa politique de spoliation et de déforestation de l’Amazonie, ce dont se foutait Trump.

Antonyms

boisement afforestation forestation

This word in other languages

deforestation(English)deforestación(Español)Entwaldung(Deutsch)desflorestamento(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

ddéforestation
deforestation
dféorestation
défforestation
défoerstation
déforesattion
déforesstation
déforestaiton
déforestatino
déforestationn
déforestatoin
déforestattion
déforesttaion
déforesttation
déforetsation
déforrestation
déforsetation
défroestation
déofrestation
édforestation

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of déforestation - 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.

Edit distance from "déforestation"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "déforestation"?

"déforestation" is spelled D-É-F-O-R-E-S-T-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \de.fɔ.ʁɛs.ta.sjɔ̃\.

What does "déforestation" mean?

As a noun, "déforestation" means: Diminution des surfaces couvertes de forêts.

What are common misspellings of "déforestation"?

Common misspellings include "ddéforestation", "deforestation", "dféorestation", "défforestation", "défoerstation". The correct spelling is "déforestation".

How do you pronounce "déforestation"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "déforestation" is \de.fɔ.ʁɛs.ta.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "déforestation" come from?

"déforestation" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "déforestation", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 here; floor ≥5).

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