Deleuze
\də.løz\
The verdict
“Deleuze” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,774. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,774
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille, notamment connu par le philosophe français Gilles Deleuze.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deleuze · Deleuze · French
Deleuze · rank #32,774 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,774
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dario
Nearest frequency peer: Dario (-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 « Deleuze »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- créoles
créoles
67,230 corpus weight
- Dario
Dario
67,228 corpus weight
- Deleuze
Deleuze
67,227 corpus weight
- demo
demo
67,226 corpus weight
- Dickens
Dickens
67,225 corpus weight
- discutions
discutions
67,224 corpus weight
What this shows « Deleuze » 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 | Deleuze |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \də.løz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,774 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Deleuze »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Deleuze (IPA \də.løz\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #32,774 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille, notamment connu par le philosophe français Gilles Deleuze.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Deleuze, with forms such as "ddeleuze", "deeluze", and "deleuez". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "déluge", "deluxe", "demeure", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Deleuze, spelled D-E-L-E-U-Z-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille, notamment connu par le philosophe français Gilles Deleuze.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddeleuze
- deeluze
- deleuez
- deleuzze
- delezue
- delleuze
- delueze
- dleeuze
- edleuze
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Deleuze - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).