délégué
\de.le.ɡe\
The verdict
“délégué” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,337. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,337
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui a reçu une délégation, qui a commission de quelqu’un.
Corpus desk
Index FR-delegue · délégué · French
délégué · rank #5,337 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,337
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH débarrasser
Nearest frequency peer: débarrasser (-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 « délégué »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- day
day
94,667 corpus weight
- difficileme…
difficilement
94,666 corpus weight
- débarrasser
débarrasser
94,665 corpus weight
- délégué
délégué
94,664 corpus weight
- désolée
désolée
94,663 corpus weight
- emporter
emporter
94,661 corpus weight
What this shows « délégué » 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 | délégué |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.le.ɡe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,337 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « délégué »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around délégué (IPA \de.le.ɡe\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,337 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Personne qui a reçu une délégation, qui a commission de quelqu’un.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for délégué, with forms such as "ddélégué", "delegue", and "dléégué". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "déluge", "delete", "dengue", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is délégué, spelled D-É-L-É-G-U-É.
Definition
- 1Personne qui a reçu une délégation, qui a commission de quelqu’un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how délégué appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Militant du mouvement socialiste naissant, Camélinat adhère, dès sa fondation, à l’Association internationale des travailleurs (AIT) ; il sera d’ailleurs délégué aux premiers congrès de cette Internationale portée sur les fonts baptismaux par Karl Marx.
Tandis que Dimitrov et Manuil’skij ont droit à des ovations debout, avec des slogans scandés durant plusieurs minutes, les délégués suisses obtiennent au mieux quelques applaudissements polis.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddélégué
- delegue
- dléégué
- délgéué
- déllégué
- déléggué
- délégéu
- déléugé
- déélgué
- édlégué
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of délégué - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).