dépendances
\de.pɑ̃.dɑ̃s\
The verdict
“dépendances” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,915. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,915
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de dépendance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dependances · dépendances · French
dépendances · rank #14,915 · 18 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,915
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH définissent
Nearest frequency peer: définissent (-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 « dépendances »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- décourager
décourager
85,089 corpus weight
- décrivent
décrivent
85,088 corpus weight
- définissent
définissent
85,087 corpus weight
- dépendances
dépendances
85,086 corpus weight
- dépourvu
dépourvu
85,085 corpus weight
- détracteurs
détracteurs
85,083 corpus weight
What this shows « dépendances » 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 | dépendances |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.pɑ̃.dɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #14,915 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dépendances »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around dépendances (IPA \de.pɑ̃.dɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,915 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de dépendance.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for dépendances, with forms such as "ddépendances", "dependances", and "dpéendances". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "dépendante", "dépendants", "dépendantes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 dépendances, spelled D-É-P-E-N-D-A-N-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de dépendance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dépendances appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Certains, conscients des maux engendrés par nos dépendances mondiales et européennes, estiment que le salut consiste à s’y soustraire, c’est-à-dire à démondialiser et déseuropéiser la France.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddépendances
- dependances
- dpéendances
- déepndances
- dépednances
- dépenadnces
- dépendacnes
- dépendancces
- dépendancess
- dépendancse
- dépendanecs
- dépendannces
- dépenddances
- dépendnaces
- dépenndances
- dépnedances
- déppendances
- édpendances
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dépendances - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).