dépourvus
\de.puʁ.vy\
The verdict
“dépourvus” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,630. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,630
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de dépourvu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-depourvus · dépourvus · French
dépourvus · rank #25,630 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,630
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dépanner
Nearest frequency peer: dépanner (-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 « dépourvus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- délibérée
délibérée
74,374 corpus weight
- dénoncée
dénoncée
74,373 corpus weight
- dépanner
dépanner
74,372 corpus weight
- dépourvus
dépourvus
74,371 corpus weight
- dépréciation
dépréciation
74,370 corpus weight
- dériver
dériver
74,369 corpus weight
What this shows « dépourvus » 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 | dépourvus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.puʁ.vy\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #25,630 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dépourvus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around dépourvus (IPA \de.puʁ.vy\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #25,630 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de dépourvu.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for dépourvus, with forms such as "ddépourvus", "depourvus", and "dpéourvus". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "dépourvu", "dépourvue", "dépourvues", 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 dépourvus, spelled D-É-P-O-U-R-V-U-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de dépourvu.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddépourvus
- depourvus
- dpéourvus
- déopurvus
- déporuvus
- dépourrvus
- dépouruvs
- dépourvsu
- dépourvuss
- dépourvvus
- dépouvrus
- déppourvus
- dépuorvus
- édpourvus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dépourvus - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).