Dembélé
\dɛm.be.le\
The verdict
“Dembélé” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,250. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,250
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dembele · Dembélé · French
Dembélé · rank #39,250 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,250
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH cérémonial
Nearest frequency peer: cérémonial (-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 « Dembélé »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- crevaison
crevaison
60,754 corpus weight
- croiseurs
croiseurs
60,753 corpus weight
- cérémonial
cérémonial
60,752 corpus weight
- Dembélé
Dembélé
60,751 corpus weight
- Depression
Depression
60,750 corpus weight
- diffraction
diffraction
60,749 corpus weight
What this shows « Dembélé » 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 | Dembélé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dɛm.be.le\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,250 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Dembélé »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Dembélé (IPA \dɛm.be.le\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #39,250 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Dembélé, with forms such as "ddembélé", "debmélé", and "dembbélé". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "démêler", "démêlés", "débile", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 Dembélé, spelled D-E-M-B-É-L-É.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Dembélé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il avait choisi d’aligner un milieu très jeune, avec Lepenant (19 ans) et Caqueret (20 ans), derrière ses deux attaquants plus expérimentés, Lacazette et Dembélé.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddembélé
- debmélé
- dembbélé
- dembele
- dembléé
- dembéllé
- dembéél
- demmbélé
- deméblé
- dmebélé
- edmbélé
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Dembélé - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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