déodorant
\de.ɔ.dɔ.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“déodorant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,259. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,259
- frequency rank, French
- 404,891
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Produit cosmétique destiné à masquer les mauvaises odeurs de la transpiration ou à régulariser celle-ci. Il existe sous plusieurs formes : bâtons, sticks, sprays, à bille, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deodorant · déodorant · French
déodorant · rank #38,259 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,259
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 404,891
- PHOTO-FINISH déployant
Nearest frequency peer: déployant (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “déodorant”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- découvrirez
découvrirez
61,745 corpus weight
- délation
délation
61,744 corpus weight
- déodorant
déodorant
61,742 corpus weight
- déployant
déployant
61,741 corpus weight
- désobéir
désobéir
61,740 corpus weight
- détournées
détournées
61,739 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “déodorant” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | déodorant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.ɔ.dɔ.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #38,259 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “déodorant” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around déodorant (IPA \de.ɔ.dɔ.ʁɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,259 among 404,891 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Produit cosmétique destiné à masquer les mauvaises odeurs de la transpiration ou à régulariser celle-ci. Il existe sous plusieurs formes : bâtons, sticks, sprays, à bille, etc.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for déodorant, with forms such as "ddéodorant", "deodorant", and "doédorant". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "dévorant", "déplorant", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is déodorant, spelled D-É-O-D-O-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Produit cosmétique destiné à masquer les mauvaises odeurs de la transpiration ou à régulariser celle-ci. Il existe sous plusieurs formes : bâtons, sticks, sprays, à bille, etc.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddéodorant
- deodorant
- doédorant
- dédoorant
- déoddorant
- déodoarnt
- déodorannt
- déodorantt
- déodoratn
- déodornat
- déodorrant
- déodroant
- déoodrant
- édodorant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of déodorant - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "déodorant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.