Delors

\də.lɔʁ\

/\də.lɔʁ\/ name

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The verdict

“Delors” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,543. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#45,543
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-delors · Delors · French

Delors · rank #45,543 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #45,543
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH Debbouze

Nearest frequency peer: Debbouze (-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 « Delors »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Delors » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Delors vs dors
50% similar
Delors vs démos
33% similar
Delors vs devos
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Delors
PropertyValue
HeadwordDelors
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\də.lɔʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#45,543
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Delors »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Delorsse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Debbouze » (#45,542), « database » (#45,541), « Césarée » (#45,540). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « Delors » est au #45,543. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around Delors (IPA \də.lɔʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #45,543 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Delors, with forms such as "ddelors", "dellors", and "delorrs". 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, "dors", "démos", "devos", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Delors, spelled D-E-L-O-R-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Delors appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. D’autant que la guerre entre le Hamas et Israël « fait passer l’Ukraine au second plan dans les priorités du gouvernement américain », abonde Cyrille Bret, chercheur associé à l’Institut Jacques-Delors, spécialiste de la Russie.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddelors
  • dellors
  • delorrs
  • delorss
  • delosr
  • delros
  • deolrs
  • dleors
  • edlors

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Delors - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ddelors1dellors1delorrs1delorss1delosr2delros2deolrs2dleors2
Edit distance from "Delors"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Delors"?
"Delors" is spelled D-E-L-O-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is \də.lɔʁ\.
What does "Delors" mean?
As a proper noun, "Delors" means: Nom de famille.
What words are commonly confused with "Delors"?
"Delors" is commonly confused with "dors", "démos", "devos". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Delors"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Delors" is \də.lɔʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Delors" come from?
"Delors" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Delors", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

courus#45,530Dubosc#45,559errent#45,590Exeter#45,600

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

Debbouze9 variantsDiawara9 variantsdisease9 variantsessouffle9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list