degas
\ˈde.ɡaz\
The verdict
“degas” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,742. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,742
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enlever le gaz de.
Corpus desk
Index FR-degas · degas · French
degas · rank #39,742 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,742
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dalmatie
Nearest frequency peer: Dalmatie (-2 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 « degas »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Cérès
Cérès
60,263 corpus weight
- daigne
daigne
60,262 corpus weight
- Dalmatie
Dalmatie
60,261 corpus weight
- degas
degas
60,259 corpus weight
- deportivo
deportivo
60,257 corpus weight
- diffusait
diffusait
60,256 corpus weight
What this shows « degas » 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 | degas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈde.ɡaz\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #39,742 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « degas »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around degas (IPA \ˈde.ɡaz\), averb. Corpus frequency is #39,742 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Enlever le gaz de.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for degas, with forms such as "ddegas", "deags", and "degass". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "des", "DGA", "déjà", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is degas, spelled D-E-G-A-S.
Definition
- 1Enlever le gaz de.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddegas
- deags
- degass
- deggas
- degsa
- dgeas
- edgas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of degas - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).