délivre
\de.livʁ\
The verdict
“délivre” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,774. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,774
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom vulgaire de l’arrière-faix, dont la sortie termine l’accouchement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-delivre · délivre · French
délivre · rank #13,774 · 10 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,774
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH défoncé
Nearest frequency peer: défoncé (-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 « délivre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Dordogne
Dordogne
86,230 corpus weight
- dotation
dotation
86,229 corpus weight
- défoncé
défoncé
86,228 corpus weight
- délivre
délivre
86,227 corpus weight
- désirent
désirent
86,226 corpus weight
- détruites
détruites
86,224 corpus weight
What this shows « délivre » 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 | délivre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.livʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,774 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « délivre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around délivre (IPA \de.livʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,774 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for délivre, with forms such as "ddélivre", "delivre", and "dléivre". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "dérive", "desire", "dérivée", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is délivre, spelled D-É-L-I-V-R-E.
Definition
- 1Nom vulgaire de l’arrière-faix, dont la sortie termine l’accouchement.
- 2Décombres, vestiges. (exceptionnellement au féminin).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how délivre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand le docteur eut aidé à l’expulsion du délivre, en tirant sur le cordon, la sage-femme la souleva pour ôter les serviettes, qu’un flot épais de sang venait de rougir.
Prestement, Marguerite Jouenne va enfouir la délivre dans le jardin.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddélivre
- delivre
- dléivre
- déilvre
- délirve
- déliver
- délivvre
- déllivre
- délvire
- édlivre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of délivre - 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 "délivre", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).