délétères
\de.le.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“délétères” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,729. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,729
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de délétère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deleteres · délétères · French
délétères · rank #40,729 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,729
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH démontée
Nearest frequency peer: démontée (+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 « délétères »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- décoloration
décoloration
59,276 corpus weight
- déconnectée
déconnectée
59,275 corpus weight
- délétères
délétères
59,272 corpus weight
- démontée
démontée
59,271 corpus weight
- dénigre
dénigre
59,270 corpus weight
- désinvolte
désinvolte
59,268 corpus weight
What this shows « délétères » 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 | délétères |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.le.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #40,729 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « délétères »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around délétères (IPA \de.le.tɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #40,729 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de délétère.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for délétères, with forms such as "ddélétères", "deleteres", and "dléétères". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "délétère", "dégénérés", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is délétères, spelled D-É-L-É-T-È-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de délétère.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddélétères
- deleteres
- dléétères
- déllétères
- déltéères
- délétrèes
- déléttères
- délétèers
- délétèress
- délétèrres
- délétèrse
- déléètres
- dééltères
- édlétères
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of délétères - 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.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "délétères", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (14 here; floor ≥5).