Delphes
\dɛlf\
The verdict
“Delphes” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,711. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,711
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sanctuaire panhellénique, situé au pied du Parnasse et voué à Apollon où officiait la Pythie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-delphes · Delphes · French
Delphes · rank #40,711 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,711
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Delahaye
Nearest frequency peer: Delahaye (-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 « Delphes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- December
December
59,292 corpus weight
- Delahaye
Delahaye
59,291 corpus weight
- Delphes
Delphes
59,290 corpus weight
- demandèrent
demandèrent
59,289 corpus weight
- diadème
diadème
59,287 corpus weight
- didactiques
didactiques
59,286 corpus weight
What this shows « Delphes » 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 | Delphes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dɛlf\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #40,711 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Delphes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Delphes (IPA \dɛlf\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #40,711 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sanctuaire panhellénique, situé au pied du Parnasse et voué à Apollon où officiait la Pythie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Delphes, with forms such as "ddelphes", "delhpes", and "dellphes". 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, "délires", "délices", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Delphes, spelled D-E-L-P-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1Sanctuaire panhellénique, situé au pied du Parnasse et voué à Apollon où officiait la Pythie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Delphes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un poème du VIIᵉ siècle conte la venue du dieu à Pythô, l’Hymne homerique à Apollon : après sa naissance, le dieu cherche un sanctuaire digne de lui et se fixe à Delphes où il tue de ses flèches un dragon, ennemi de la lumière, ou plutôt une dracène, que la Terre a suscitée.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddelphes
- delhpes
- dellphes
- delpehs
- delphess
- delphhes
- delphse
- delpphes
- deplhes
- dlephes
- edlphes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Delphes - 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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