départemental
\de.paʁ.tə.mɑ̃.tal\
The verdict
“départemental” has 21 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,818. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,818
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 21
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au département.
Corpus desk
Index FR-departemental · départemental · French
départemental · rank #7,818 · 21 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,818
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 21 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH démons
Nearest frequency peer: démons (-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 « départemental »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Dupont
Dupont
92,186 corpus weight
- débattre
débattre
92,185 corpus weight
- démons
démons
92,184 corpus weight
- département…
départemental
92,183 corpus weight
- désirs
désirs
92,182 corpus weight
- détour
détour
92,181 corpus weight
What this shows « départemental » 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 | départemental |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.paʁ.tə.mɑ̃.tal\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #7,818 |
| Misspellings tracked | 21 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « départemental »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 21 spelling variants around départemental (IPA \de.paʁ.tə.mɑ̃.tal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,818 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Relatif au département.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 21 likely wrong-spelling variants for départemental, with forms such as "ddépartemental", "departemental", and "dpéartemental". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "départements", "départementale", "départementaux", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 départemental, spelled D-É-P-A-R-T-E-M-E-N-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif au département.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how départemental appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le chemin de Méry ( Aube) à Sezanne (Marne), par Saint-Oulph , Étrelles et Granges, est et demeure classé parmi les routes départementales de l'Aube sous le nᵒ 10. Il s'embranchera sur la route départementale nᵒ 4 (Marne), de Soissons à Troyes, et prendra désormais la même dénomination.
Il m'est dit à chaque instant que l'un des grands soucis des autorités départementales, c'est l'entretien des routes, souvent emportées par des torrents, par les coulées de boue, par les éboulements, par des chutes de blocs.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddépartemental
- departemental
- dpéartemental
- déaprtemental
- déparetmental
- déparrtemental
- départeemntal
- départemenatl
- départemenntal
- départementall
- départementla
- départementtal
- départemetnal
- départemmental
- départemnetal
- départmeental
- départtemental
- dépatremental
- déppartemental
- dépratemental
- édpartemental
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of départemental - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (21 here; floor ≥5).