départements
\de.paʁ.tə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“départements” has 20 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,532. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,532
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de département.
Corpus desk
Index FR-departements · départements · French
départements · rank #3,532 · 20 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,532
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH faisons
Nearest frequency peer: faisons (+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 “départements”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- dirige
dirige
96,472 corpus weight
- dise
dise
96,471 corpus weight
- départements
départements
96,469 corpus weight
- faisons
faisons
96,468 corpus weight
- ferais
ferais
96,467 corpus weight
- fleur
fleur
96,466 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “départements” 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 | départements |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.paʁ.tə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #3,532 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “départements” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around départements (IPA \de.paʁ.tə.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,532 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de département.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for départements, with forms such as "ddépartements", "departements", and "dpéartements". 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, "department", "dépassements", "département", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is départements, spelled D-É-P-A-R-T-E-M-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de département.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how départements appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je n’en dirai pas plus, il serait inélégant d’attaquer davantage un homme qui n’est plus là pour se défendre et dont je me plais pourtant à reconnaître qu’en faisant voter par le Parlement la loi transformant le métayage en fermage, il réussit à faire ce en quoi avaient échoué les trois premières républiques : déchouaniser le plus chouan de nos départements.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddépartements
- departements
- dpéartements
- déaprtements
- déparetments
- déparrtements
- départeemnts
- départemennts
- départemenst
- départementss
- départementts
- départemetns
- départemments
- départemnets
- départmeents
- départtements
- dépatrements
- déppartements
- dépratements
- édpartements
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of départements - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "départements", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "départements". Here's where to go from here.
- "départements" maps to 4 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "department". View pair
- 20 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #3,532 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "D" letter cohort. D–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
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.