délires
\de.liʁ\
The verdict
“délires” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,161. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,161
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de délire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-delires · délires · French
délires · rank #13,161 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,161
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH défendue
Nearest frequency peer: défendue (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “délires”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- décentralis…
décentralisation
86,843 corpus weight
- décrets
décrets
86,842 corpus weight
- défendue
défendue
86,841 corpus weight
- délires
délires
86,840 corpus weight
- déplore
déplore
86,839 corpus weight
- endettement
endettement
86,837 corpus weight
What this shows “délires” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | délires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.liʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,161 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “délires” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around délires (IPA \de.liʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,161 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de délire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for délires, with forms such as "ddélires", "delires", and "dléires". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dires", "désirs", "délits", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is délires, spelled D-É-L-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de délire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how délires appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La rockeuse d’héroïne devient à son tour croqueuse de diamant et s’abîme en des délires successifs, peut-être pour oublier sa condition de Sous-développée, elle l’enfant gâtée des Caraïbes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddélires
- delires
- dléires
- déilres
- déliers
- déliress
- délirres
- délirse
- déllires
- délries
- édlires
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of délires - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "délires", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (11 here; floor ≥5).