délégués

\de.le.ɡe\

/\de.le.ɡe\/ adj

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The verdict

“délégués” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,231. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#8,231
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de délégué.

Corpus desk

Index FR-delegues · délégués · French

délégués · rank #8,231 · 12 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #8,231
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH duchesse

Nearest frequency peer: duchesse (-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 « délégués »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « délégués » 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).

délégués vs devenues
38% similar
délégués vs détenues
50% similar
délégués vs délégué
88% similar

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

Key facts for délégués
PropertyValue
Headworddélégués
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\de.le.ɡe\
Letters8
Frequency rank#8,231
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « délégués »

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

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « duchesse » (#8,230), « démographique » (#8,232), « dixième » (#8,229). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « délégués » est au #8,231. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around délégués (IPA \de.le.ɡe\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,231 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de délégué.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for délégués, with forms such as "ddélégués", "delegues", and "dléégués". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "devenues", "détenues", "délégué", 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 délégués, spelled D-É-L-É-G-U-É-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de délégué.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddélégués
  • delegues
  • dléégués
  • délgéués
  • déllégués
  • déléggués
  • délégusé
  • déléguéss
  • délégéus
  • déléugés
  • déélgués
  • édlégués

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of délégués - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ddélégués1delegues3dléégués2délgéués2déllégués1déléggués1délégusé2déléguéss1
Edit distance from "délégués"

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 "délégués"?
"délégués" is spelled D-É-L-É-G-U-É-S. The IPA pronunciation is \de.le.ɡe\.
What does "délégués" mean?
As an adjective, "délégués" means: Masculin pluriel de délégué.
What words are commonly confused with "délégués"?
"délégués" is commonly confused with "devenues", "détenues", "délégué". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "délégués"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "délégués" is \de.le.ɡe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "délégués" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

duchesse#8,230entourée#8,237comtesse#8,220comptoir#8,219

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

intégrée12 variantsattendons12 variantsarmement12 variantsaccrocher12 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list