dépôt
\de.po\
The verdict
“dépôt” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #3,136 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #3,136
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Action de déposer, de placer une chose en quelque endroit, ou de remettre, de confier une chose à quelqu’un.
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 | dépôt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.po\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,136 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dépôt” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dépôt is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.po\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,136 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for dépôt, with forms such as "ddépôt", "depot", and "dpéôt". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dot", "det", "Depp", 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 explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is dépôt, spelled D-É-P-Ô-T.
Definition
- 1Action de déposer, de placer une chose en quelque endroit, ou de remettre, de confier une chose à quelqu’un.
- 2Ce qui est déposé, placement.
- 3Convention faite en déposant quelque chose entre les mains de quelqu’un, caution.
- 4Lieu où l’on entrepose des objets ou des marchandises.
- 5Entrepôt.
- 6Remise pour les locomotives ou autres véhicules.
- 7Lieu où l’on organise les cadres et où l’on exerce les recrues.
- 8Soldats, recrues qui sont en ce lieu.
- 9Sédiment qu’un fluide dépose au fond du vase où il a séjourné pendant quelque temps. #*Le dépôt de l’urine. #*Il y a un dépôt au fond de la bouteille. #*Un léger dépôt n’altère en rien la qualité de ce produit, phrase justifiante inscrite sur l’emballage de certains produits de commerce.
- 10Amas d’humeurs qui se forme en quelque endroit du corps, abcès.
- 11Masses de matières minérales, formées à la surface du Globe par les eaux, les glaciers, les vents, les êtres organisés.
- 12Stockage centralisé d'un logiciel de gestion de versions.
- 13Endroit où sont gardées provisoirement des personnes mises en examen.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddépôt,depot,dpéôt,déppôt,déptô,dépôtt,déôpt,édpôt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dépôt - 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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Using “dépôt”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-É-P-Ô-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \de.po\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “dot” - see the side-by-side comparison. dépôt vs dot
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.