délinquance
\de.lɛ̃.kɑ̃s\
The verdict
“délinquance” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,987. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,987
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Conduite caractérisée par des délits répétés, considérée surtout sous son aspect social mais également pénal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-delinquance · délinquance · French
délinquance · rank #9,987 · 17 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,987
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH découvrent
Nearest frequency peer: découvrent (-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 « délinquance »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- débarquement
débarquement
90,017 corpus weight
- déclarent
déclarent
90,016 corpus weight
- découvrent
découvrent
90,015 corpus weight
- délinquance
délinquance
90,014 corpus weight
- détection
détection
90,013 corpus weight
- développeme…
développements
90,012 corpus weight
What this shows « délinquance » 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 | délinquance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.lɛ̃.kɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #9,987 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « délinquance »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around délinquance (IPA \de.lɛ̃.kɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,987 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Conduite caractérisée par des délits répétés, considérée surtout sous son aspect social mais également pénal.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for délinquance, with forms such as "ddélinquance", "delinquance", and "dléinquance". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "délinquant", "délinquants", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is délinquance, spelled D-É-L-I-N-Q-U-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Conduite caractérisée par des délits répétés, considérée surtout sous son aspect social mais également pénal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how délinquance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est bien connu que la civilisation ne tend nullement à faire disparaitre la délinquance mais bien à la faire évoluer.
On m’y a volé mon portefeuille. Mais ce n’était pas grave. En homme modernisé, je savais bien que la petite délinquance était le fait de victimes innocentes de la société cruelle, qui ne leur donnait ni de travail, ni de vrais raisons de vivre.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddélinquance
- delinquance
- dléinquance
- déilnquance
- délinnquance
- délinqaunce
- délinqquance
- délinquacne
- délinquancce
- délinquanec
- délinquannce
- délinqunace
- délinuqance
- déliqnuance
- déllinquance
- délniquance
- édlinquance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of délinquance - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).