dégradant
The verdict
“dégradant” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,464. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,464
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui dégrade moralement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-degradant · dégradant · French
dégradant · rank #31,464 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #31,464
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déguste
Nearest frequency peer: déguste (+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 « dégradant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- décomposer
décomposer
68,542 corpus weight
- dédier
dédier
68,539 corpus weight
- dégradant
dégradant
68,537 corpus weight
- déguste
déguste
68,536 corpus weight
- détaillants
détaillants
68,534 corpus weight
- détectés
détectés
68,533 corpus weight
What this shows « dégradant » 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 | dégradant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #31,464 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dégradant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around dégradant, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #31,464 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui dégrade moralement.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for dégradant, with forms such as "ddégradant", "degradant", and "dgéradant". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "dégradent", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is dégradant, spelled D-É-G-R-A-D-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui dégrade moralement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dégradant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tous les partisans du président sortant ne sont pas des extrémistes ou des individus violents qui cautionnent le spectacle dégradant de la semaine dernière.
Une action dégradante. - Des habitudes dégradantes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddégradant
- degradant
- dgéradant
- dégardant
- déggradant
- dégraadnt
- dégradannt
- dégradantt
- dégradatn
- dégraddant
- dégradnat
- dégrdaant
- dégrradant
- dérgadant
- édgradant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dégradant - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).