délai
\de.lɛ\
The verdict
“délai” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,711. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,711
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Temps accordé pour faire une chose, ou à l’expiration duquel on sera tenu de faire une certaine chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-delai · délai · French
délai · rank #2,711 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,711
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déjeuner
Nearest frequency peer: déjeuner (-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 « délai »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- débats
débats
97,293 corpus weight
- déjeuner
déjeuner
97,291 corpus weight
- délai
délai
97,290 corpus weight
- efficacité
efficacité
97,289 corpus weight
- employé
employé
97,288 corpus weight
- ennemis
ennemis
97,287 corpus weight
What this shows « délai » 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 | délai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,711 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « délai »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around délai (IPA \de.lɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,711 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Temps accordé pour faire une chose, ou à l’expiration duquel on sera tenu de faire une certaine chose.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for délai, with forms such as "ddélai", "delai", and "dléai". 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, "dla", "demi", "déni", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 délai, spelled D-É-L-A-I.
Definition
- 1Temps accordé pour faire une chose, ou à l’expiration duquel on sera tenu de faire une certaine chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how délai appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette procédure a pour but d’abréger les délais et de diminuer les frais dans les causes entre locateurs et locataires. Elle n'exclue pas la procédure ordinaire; mais on comprend qu'elle lui est de beaucoup préférable pour ces nombreux litiges dont la nature même exige une instruction rapide et une prompte solution.
Il ne leur donna qu’un délai d’un mois pour quitter le pays. Les retardataires étaient menacés d’être mis à mort.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddélai
- delai
- dléai
- déali
- délia
- déllai
- édlai
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of délai - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).