dépit
\de.pi\
The verdict
“dépit” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,666. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,666
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Irritation causée par un froissement d’amour-propre, aigreur suite à la déception, à l'amertume, au sentiment de rancœur plus ou moins tenace, difficile à avouer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-depit · dépit · French
dépit · rank #4,666 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,666
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH duquel
Nearest frequency peer: duquel (-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 « dépit »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- doc
doc
95,337 corpus weight
- duquel
duquel
95,336 corpus weight
- dépit
dépit
95,335 corpus weight
- employeur
employeur
95,334 corpus weight
- excès
excès
95,333 corpus weight
- failli
failli
95,332 corpus weight
What this shows « dépit » 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 | dépit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.pi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dépit »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around dépit (IPA \de.pi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,666 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Irritation causée par un froissement d’amour-propre, aigreur suite à la déception, à l'amertume, au sentiment de rancœur plus ou moins tenace, difficile à avouer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for dépit, with forms such as "ddépit", "depit", and "dpéit". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "det", "doit", "Depp", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is dépit, spelled D-É-P-I-T.
Definition
- 1Irritation causée par un froissement d’amour-propre, aigreur suite à la déception, à l'amertume, au sentiment de rancœur plus ou moins tenace, difficile à avouer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dépit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La perte de sa condition animal l'attriste, il en conçoit honte et dépit ; il aimerait être un fêtard, ou du moins passer pour tel. (Michel Houellebecq, Rester Vivant, 1999)
Hervé étouffait de rage, et ce n'était pas le dépit de renoncer à la main d'une riche héritière, ni le regret de se retrouver ruiné comme devant qui l’exaspérait. C'était l’humiliation d'avoir été traité de la sorte par un parvenu fier de ses millions.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddépit
- depit
- dpéit
- déipt
- dépitt
- déppit
- dépti
- édpit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dépit - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).