délaisser
\de.lɛ.se\
The verdict
“délaisser” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,140. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,140
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abandonner, laisser sans aucun secours, sans aucune assistance, sans aucun témoignage d’affection.
Corpus desk
Index FR-delaisser · délaisser · French
délaisser · rank #28,140 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,140
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déformations
Nearest frequency peer: déformations (-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 « délaisser »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- décapitation
décapitation
71,864 corpus weight
- décréter
décréter
71,863 corpus weight
- déformations
déformations
71,862 corpus weight
- délaisser
délaisser
71,861 corpus weight
- démesuré
démesuré
71,860 corpus weight
- démesurée
démesurée
71,859 corpus weight
What this shows « délaisser » 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 | délaisser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.lɛ.se\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #28,140 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « délaisser »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around délaisser (IPA \de.lɛ.se\), averb. Corpus frequency is #28,140 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for délaisser, with forms such as "ddélaisser", "delaisser", and "dléaisser". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "dépasser", "délaisse", "délaissée", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is délaisser, spelled D-É-L-A-I-S-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Abandonner, laisser sans aucun secours, sans aucune assistance, sans aucun témoignage d’affection.
- 2Négliger, laisser à l'abandon.
- 3Quitter une chose dont on était en possession.
- 4Ne pas continuer, renoncer à.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how délaisser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous êtes occupé par trop de choses et vous délaissez votre moitié.
Il avait déjà repéré bien des parcelles que les paysans délaissaient ou travaillaient mal parce qu’elles étaient trop loin ou envahies par les ronciers.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddélaisser
- delaisser
- dléaisser
- déalisser
- délaiser
- délaisesr
- délaisserr
- délaissre
- délasiser
- déliasser
- déllaisser
- édlaisser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of délaisser - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).