dégaine
\de.ɡɛn\
The verdict
“dégaine” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,740. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,740
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tournure ; façon de se tenir ; allure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-degaine · dégaine · French
dégaine · rank #29,740 · 10 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,740
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH défiant
Nearest frequency peer: défiant (-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 « dégaine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- déductions
déductions
70,264 corpus weight
- défendez
défendez
70,263 corpus weight
- défiant
défiant
70,262 corpus weight
- dégaine
dégaine
70,261 corpus weight
- dégénérés
dégénérés
70,260 corpus weight
- délicieusem…
délicieusement
70,259 corpus weight
What this shows « dégaine » 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 | dégaine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.ɡɛn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,740 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dégaine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around dégaine (IPA \de.ɡɛn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,740 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for dégaine, with forms such as "ddégaine", "degaine", and "dgéaine". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "demain", "devine", "draine", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dégaine, spelled D-É-G-A-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Tournure ; façon de se tenir ; allure.
- 2Aspect général.
- 3Appareil de deux mousquetons reliés par une sangle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dégaine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quelle dégaine ! À voir la dégaine de cet homme, on le croirait d’une autre époque.
Je suis acteur, moi. - Ah ouais, c'est vrai, t'as un peu la dégaine.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddégaine
- degaine
- dgéaine
- déagine
- dégaien
- dégainne
- déganie
- déggaine
- dégiane
- édgaine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dégaine - 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.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).