derek
\dɛˈrɛk\
The verdict
“derek” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,007. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,007
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Zone radiale entre D et R (roue matricielle), la zone qui s’étend du rayon nord-est au rayon sud-ouest dans le sens dextrorsum, c’est-à-dire la partie la plus à droite, la plus orientale et la plus...
Corpus desk
Index FR-derek · derek · French
derek · rank #14,007 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,007
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH cuve
Nearest frequency peer: cuve (-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 « derek »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- culinaire
culinaire
85,996 corpus weight
- cuve
cuve
85,995 corpus weight
- derek
derek
85,994 corpus weight
- devrai
devrai
85,993 corpus weight
- Dimitri
Dimitri
85,992 corpus weight
- dinosaures
dinosaures
85,991 corpus weight
What this shows « derek » 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 | derek |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɛˈrɛk\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,007 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « derek »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around derek (IPA \dɛˈrɛk\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,007 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Zone radiale entre D et R (roue matricielle), la zone qui s’étend du rayon nord-est au rayon sud-ouest dans le sens dextrorsum, c’est-à-dire la partie la plus à droite, la plus orientale et la plus...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for derek, with forms such as "dderek", "deerk", and "derekk". 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, "dre", "dire", "dure", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is derek, spelled D-E-R-E-K.
Definition
- 1Zone radiale entre D et R (roue matricielle), la zone qui s’étend du rayon nord-est au rayon sud-ouest dans le sens dextrorsum, c’est-à-dire la partie la plus à droite, la plus orientale et la plus basse, la plus méridionale par opposition à l’autre hémisphère ayant pour bornes R et D et que l’on nomme : redek.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dderek
- deerk
- derekk
- derke
- derrek
- dreek
- edrek
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of derek - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "derek", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (7 here; floor ≥5).