délinquant
\de.lɛ̃.kɑ̃\
The verdict
“délinquant” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,604. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,604
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la délinquance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-delinquant · délinquant · French
délinquant · rank #16,604 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,604
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dégueu
Nearest frequency peer: dégueu (-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 « délinquant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- découvrant
découvrant
83,400 corpus weight
- dégagée
dégagée
83,399 corpus weight
- dégueu
dégueu
83,398 corpus weight
- délinquant
délinquant
83,397 corpus weight
- démunis
démunis
83,396 corpus weight
- dépassée
dépassée
83,395 corpus weight
What this shows « délinquant » 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 | délinquant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.lɛ̃.kɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #16,604 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « délinquant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around délinquant (IPA \de.lɛ̃.kɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,604 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Relatif à la délinquance.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for délinquant, with forms such as "ddélinquant", "delinquant", and "dléinquant". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "délinquants", "délinquance", 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 délinquant, spelled D-É-L-I-N-Q-U-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la délinquance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how délinquant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Réécouter les enregistrements, consigner tous les résultats dans des tableaux de suivi, donner la parole aux commerces délinquants dans un souci de démarche équitable...
Pas besoin de se garder une petite gêne ou de faire preuve d’un MINIMUM de jugement en sachant qu’on exhibe des comportements délinquants alors que des milliers de personnes sont abonnées à nos plateformes et, dans certains cas, nous admirent – on est en vacances, on fait ce qu’on veut et on publie le tout sur les réseaux sociaux.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddélinquant
- delinquant
- dléinquant
- déilnquant
- délinnquant
- délinqaunt
- délinqquant
- délinquannt
- délinquantt
- délinquatn
- délinqunat
- délinuqant
- déliqnuant
- déllinquant
- délniquant
- édlinquant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of délinquant - 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
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).