déluge
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,611
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
déluge is aFrenchnoun. It means: Selon le mythe biblique, l’inondation provoquée par Dieu voulant détruire l’humanité, dont seuls quelques hommes réchappent, notamment dans un récit parmi d’autres : Noé et son arche. Pronounced \de.lyʒ\. Often confused with dénué and député.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | déluge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.lyʒ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,611 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for déluge is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.lyʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,611 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for déluge, with forms such as "ddéluge", "deluge", and "dléuge". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "dénué", "député", "deluxe", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is déluge, spelled D-É-L-U-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Selon le mythe biblique, l’inondation provoquée par Dieu voulant détruire l’humanité, dont seuls quelques hommes réchappent, notamment dans un récit parmi d’autres : Noé et son arche.
- 2Temps très ancien.
- 3Très grande inondation.
- 4Pluie torrentielle.
- 5Choses, autres que l’eau, qui sont répandues, versées avec une extrême abondance.
- 6Grande profusion de quelque chose que ce soit.
- 7Projection massive d’eau dans les gaz éjectés par un lanceur au décollage, qui permet d’atténuer les vibrations sonores, de protéger la table de lancement et de diminuer l’agressivité chimique éventuelle de ces gaz.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddéluge,deluge,dléuge,délgue,délluge,délueg,délugge,déulge,édluge
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for déluge
Misspelling Variants of "déluge"
Frequency rank: #15,611 in French
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