délabrement

\de.la.bʁə.mɑ̃\

/\de.la.bʁə.mɑ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“délabrement” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,294. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#37,294
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
18
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de ce qui se délabre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-delabrement · délabrement · French

délabrement · rank #37,294 · 18 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #37,294
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 18 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH déjanté

Nearest frequency peer: déjanté (-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 « délabrement »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

délabrement vs désagrément
73% similar
délabrement vs délibérément
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for délabrement
PropertyValue
Headworddélabrement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\de.la.bʁə.mɑ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#37,294
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « délabrement »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).délabrementse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « déjanté » (#37,293), « délibérer » (#37,295), « dépositions » (#37,296). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « délabrement » est au #37,294. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 18 spelling variants around délabrement (IPA \de.la.bʁə.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,294 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for délabrement, with forms such as "ddélabrement", "delabrement", and "dléabrement". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "désagrément", "délibérément", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is délabrement, spelled D-É-L-A-B-R-E-M-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de ce qui se délabre.
  2. 2
    État de ce qui est délabré.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Elle se sent déjà engloutie dans le délabrement d'une caravane qui, à chaque kilomètre, se détraquera un peu plus.
  2. Savourer encore quarante pages de Mustang, c’est un meilleur rapport qualité-prix que pour tant d’œuvres littéraires qu’on se doit de lire sous peine de délabrement intellectuel.

This word in other languages

disrepair(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddélabrement
  • delabrement
  • dléabrement
  • déalbrement
  • délabbrement
  • délaberment
  • délabreemnt
  • délabremennt
  • délabrementt
  • délabremetn
  • délabremment
  • délabremnet
  • délabrmeent
  • délabrrement
  • délarbement
  • délbarement
  • déllabrement
  • édlabrement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

ddélabrement1delabrement1dléabrement2déalbrement2délabbrement1délaberment2délabreemnt2délabremennt1
Edit distance from "délabrement"

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 "délabrement"?
"délabrement" is spelled D-É-L-A-B-R-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \de.la.bʁə.mɑ̃\.
What does "délabrement" mean?
As a noun, "délabrement" means: Action de ce qui se délabre.
What words are commonly confused with "délabrement"?
"délabrement" is commonly confused with "désagrément", "délibérément". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "délabrement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "délabrement" is \de.la.bʁə.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "délabrement" come from?
"délabrement" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

dépositions#37,296déferlement#37,291dérogatoire#37,299dramaturgie#37,282

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).

diversifiées18 variantscontinentaux18 variantsclignotants18 variantsclassiquement18 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list