depuis
\də.pɥi\
The verdict
“depuis” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #112. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #112
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - À partir de.
Corpus desk
Index FR-depuis · depuis · French
depuis · rank #112 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #112
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH avant
Nearest frequency peer: avant (-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 « depuis »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- contre
contre
99,892 corpus weight
- votre
votre
99,891 corpus weight
- avant
avant
99,890 corpus weight
- depuis
depuis
99,889 corpus weight
- donc
donc
99,888 corpus weight
- notre
notre
99,887 corpus weight
What this shows « depuis » 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 | depuis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | \də.pɥi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « depuis »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around depuis (IPA \də.pɥi\), apreposition. Corpus frequency is #112 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for depuis, with forms such as "ddepuis", "depius", and "deppuis". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "deus", "deuil", "devis", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is depuis, spelled D-E-P-U-I-S.
Definition
- 1À partir de.
- 2Peut aussi indiquer un rapport de lieu ou de rang.
- 3(suivi de l'infinitif passé)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how depuis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les savants s’occupèrent de tout dans une paix profonde, depuis la végétation anormale d’un ognon de jacinthe jusqu’aux courants électriques.
[…], il ne parvint que jusqu'à l'Oued El-Abid, au Tedla, où il succomba subitement à une maladie qui le minait sournoisement depuis longtemps.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddepuis
- depius
- deppuis
- depuiss
- depusi
- deupis
- dpeuis
- edpuis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of depuis - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "depuis", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).