Delphine
\dɛl.fin\
The verdict
“Delphine” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,245. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,245
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-delphine · Delphine · French
Delphine · rank #14,245 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #14,245
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dax
Nearest frequency peer: Dax (-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 « Delphine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dany
dany
85,759 corpus weight
- Dax
Dax
85,757 corpus weight
- Delphine
Delphine
85,756 corpus weight
- diffusées
diffusées
85,755 corpus weight
- donneur
donneur
85,754 corpus weight
- doués
doués
85,753 corpus weight
What this shows « Delphine » 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 | Delphine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dɛl.fin\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,245 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Delphine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Delphine (IPA \dɛl.fin\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #14,245 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Delphine, with forms such as "ddelphine", "delhpine", and "dellphine". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "dauphine", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Delphine, spelled D-E-L-P-H-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Delphine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Et comment vous appelez-vous, mon enfant ? — Delphine, me dit-elle.
Pour Delphine Lebas, le constat était simple : « un bébé change six fois de taille durant sa première année ! On a des produits qui ont habillé un bébé mais qui sont encore en parfait état. Il était naturel pour nous de proposer des vestiaires à la location ».
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddelphine
- delhpine
- dellphine
- delphhine
- delphien
- delphinne
- delphnie
- delpihne
- delpphine
- deplhine
- dlephine
- edlphine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Delphine - 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.
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
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).